Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 841 · 40 questions

Creator's tip (Many pictures, fast): Animation = many still pictures (frames), each a little different, shown quickly. Persistence of vision: the eye holds each picture for a moment, so fast pictures blend into movement. Pictures each second = pictures on a zoetrope drum × spins each second.

1. 1.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
2. 2.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
4. 4.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a flipbook (c) a stop-motion film (d) a cartoon film
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a video game scene (c) a cartoon film (d) a stop-motion film
12. 12.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
14. 14.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a virtual 3D world (d) toys shot step by step
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 44 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
16. 16.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
18. 18.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) a little further along (c) in the same place (d) in a new colour
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
20. 20.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) persistence of vision (b) the rule of thirds (c) squash and stretch (d) colour mixing
21. 21.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 39 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
24. 24.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) flipbook pages (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a virtual 3D world
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a flipbook (c) a printed photo (d) a framed painting
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a road sign (c) a printed photo (d) a poster on a wall
27. 27.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) a computer-built model (c) toys shot step by step (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 27 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
29. 29.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) pencil drawings on paper
30. 30.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) only sound (c) one big painting (d) a single photo
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a printed photo (c) a video game scene (d) a spinning zoetrope
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
33. 33.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a rigged digital model (d) a computer-built model
34. 34.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
36. 36.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a greeting card (d) a flipbook
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 64 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
39. 39.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) flipbook pages (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a clay model moved a bit
40. 40.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) flipbook pages (c) toys shot step by step (d) a digital 3D character

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