Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 846 · 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 a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
2. 2.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 13 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
4. 4.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) two birds (b) nothing at all (c) an empty cage (d) the bird in the cage
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a framed painting (c) a poster on a wall (d) a flipbook
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a flipbook (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a looping GIF
7. 7.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a computer-built model (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
8. 8.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
9. 9.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) a single photo (c) many still pictures (d) one big painting
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a comic book page (c) a stop-motion film (d) a flipbook
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a cartoon film (c) a printed photo (d) a greeting card
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
13. 13.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) squash and stretch (c) persistence of vision (d) colour mixing
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 18 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
17. 17.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a computer-built model (d) a clay model moved a bit
18. 18.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a storyboard (c) a flipbook (d) a microphone
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a video game scene (c) a stop-motion film (d) a road sign
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
23. 23.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
28. 28.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) font (c) poster (d) pixel
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 30 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
32. 32.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
34. 34.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) a virtual 3D world (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) toys shot step by step
36. 36.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
40. 40.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) toys shot step by step (c) a rigged digital model (d) flipbook pages

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