Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 869 · 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 road sign (b) a printed photo (c) a stop-motion film (d) a framed painting
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
3. 3.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a rigged digital model (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) flipbook pages
4. 4.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a rigged digital model
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
6. 6.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) toys shot step by step (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a computer-built model
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
8. 8.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
9. 9.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the eye blends them (c) the paper moves (d) the pictures are wet
10. 10.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) colour mixing (c) squash and stretch (d) persistence of vision
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
13. 13.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
16. 16.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a rigged digital model (c) flipbook pages (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
17. 17.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) frame (c) pixel (d) font
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a flipbook (c) a comic book page (d) a road sign
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 11 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
22. 22.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
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) the bird in the cage (b) two birds (c) an empty cage (d) nothing at all
24. 24.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) it gets louder (c) it plays backwards (d) the movement looks jumpy
25. 25.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) puppets moved bit by bit
26. 26.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a microphone (b) a zoetrope (c) a storyboard (d) a flipbook
27. 27.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a digital 3D character (d) frames drawn on a tablet
28. 28.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a cartoon film (c) a flipbook (d) a comic book page
32. 32.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
35. 35.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a printed photo (c) a framed painting (d) a spinning zoetrope
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a stop-motion film (c) a flipbook (d) a video game scene
39. 39.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False

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