Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 847 · 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.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
2. 2.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
4. 4.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) persistence of vision (b) squash and stretch (c) the rule of thirds (d) colour mixing
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a stop-motion film (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a poster on a wall
6. 6.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a video game scene (c) a framed painting (d) a looping GIF
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a flipbook (c) a framed painting (d) a greeting card
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
11. 11.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a rigged digital model (c) flipbook pages (d) a clay model moved a bit
13. 13.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
17. 17.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a digital 3D character (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) flipbook pages
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
19. 19.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) the movement looks jumpy (c) it plays backwards (d) it gets louder
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
23. 23.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) nothing at all (b) two birds (c) an empty cage (d) the bird in the cage
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a looping GIF (c) a video game scene (d) a spinning zoetrope
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
29. 29.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a virtual 3D world (d) toys shot step by step
30. 30.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) in the same place (c) a little further along (d) much bigger
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
32. 32.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) toys shot step by step (d) a virtual 3D world
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a greeting card (c) a looping GIF (d) a flipbook
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a video game scene (c) a printed photo (d) a looping GIF
35. 35.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a computer-built model (d) paper cut-outs shot
36. 36.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) flipbook pages (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) puppets moved bit by bit
37. 37.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
39. 39.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the eye blends them (c) the pictures are wet (d) magic ink
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a road sign (c) a printed photo (d) a stop-motion film

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