Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 860 · 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 frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
2. 2.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) only sound (c) a single photo (d) many still pictures
4. 4.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a digital 3D character
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a framed painting (c) a video game scene (d) a spinning zoetrope
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 27 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
13. 13.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the paper moves (c) the eye blends them (d) the pictures are wet
14. 14.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
16. 16.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a rigged digital model
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a cartoon film (d) a flipbook
18. 18.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a rigged digital model
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a poster on a wall (c) a stop-motion film (d) a greeting card
21. 21.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a rigged digital model (d) toys shot step by step
22. 22.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🎞️ 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
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
27. 27.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) in the same place (c) in a new colour (d) a little further along
28. 28.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a digital 3D character (d) a virtual 3D world
30. 30.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) persistence of vision (c) squash and stretch (d) colour mixing
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
35. 35.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) flipbook pages (c) a rigged digital model (d) a computer-built model
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a printed photo (c) a flipbook (d) a stop-motion film
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
38. 38.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a microphone (b) a zoetrope (c) a storyboard (d) a flipbook
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a greeting card (c) a cartoon film (d) a spinning zoetrope
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 18 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?

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