Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 849 · 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 puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
2. 2.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a zoetrope (c) a storyboard (d) a microphone
3. 3.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a poster on a wall (c) a road sign (d) a video game scene
6. 6.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a cartoon film (d) a greeting card
10. 10.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) only sound (c) a single photo (d) many still pictures
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
12. 12.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) flipbook pages (c) a rigged digital model (d) puppets moved bit by bit
13. 13.🎞️ 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) an empty cage (c) the bird in the cage (d) nothing at all
14. 14.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
15. 15.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the pictures are wet (b) the paper moves (c) magic ink (d) the eye blends them
16. 16.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) frame (c) poster (d) pixel
17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
18. 18.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a virtual 3D world (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
20. 20.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) the rule of thirds (c) persistence of vision (d) colour mixing
21. 21.🎞️ 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
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
23. 23.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a poster on a wall (c) a framed painting (d) a cartoon film
25. 25.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a computer-built model (d) a virtual 3D world
26. 26.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
29. 29.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it plays backwards (b) it gets louder (c) the colours fade (d) the movement looks jumpy
31. 31.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) flipbook pages (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a rigged digital model
32. 32.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 22 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a comic book page (c) a video game scene (d) a looping GIF
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
40. 40.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True

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