Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 86 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a comic book page (c) a greeting card (d) a road sign
2. 2.🎞️ 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) nothing at all (d) the bird in the cage
3. 3.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) one big painting (c) many still pictures (d) a single photo
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a framed painting (c) a printed photo (d) a poster on a wall
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
7. 7.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) pixel (c) font (d) poster
8. 8.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 22 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
10. 10.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
12. 12.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a digital 3D character (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) flipbook pages
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.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
17. 17.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) persistence of vision (b) colour mixing (c) the rule of thirds (d) squash and stretch
18. 18.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a video game scene (c) a stop-motion film (d) a greeting card
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a framed painting (c) a flipbook (d) a poster on a wall
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
22. 22.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) toys shot step by step
23. 23.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) flipbook pages (c) a virtual 3D world (d) pencil drawings on paper
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a stop-motion film (c) a looping GIF (d) a printed photo
26. 26.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a cartoon film (c) a framed painting (d) a video game scene
28. 28.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) frames drawn on a tablet
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
30. 30.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a video game scene (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a flipbook
33. 33.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a video game scene (c) a framed painting (d) a comic book page
39. 39.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) toys shot step by step (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a clay model moved a bit
40. 40.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion

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