Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 876 · 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 pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 14 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
5. 5.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) flipbook pages (d) a rigged digital model
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a video game scene (c) a framed painting (d) a cartoon film
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a greeting card (d) a framed painting
9. 9.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
11. 11.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) an empty cage (b) nothing at all (c) the bird in the cage (d) two birds
12. 12.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) a single photo (c) one big painting (d) many still pictures
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
14. 14.🎞️ 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
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a road sign (c) a comic book page (d) a greeting card
16. 16.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the pictures are wet (c) the eye blends them (d) the paper moves
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a cartoon film (c) a stop-motion film (d) a road sign
20. 20.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a digital 3D character (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) paper cut-outs shot
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a comic book page (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a cartoon film
23. 23.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
25. 25.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) pixel (c) font (d) frame
26. 26.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) flipbook pages (d) a virtual 3D world
27. 27.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a digital 3D character (c) toys shot step by step (d) a virtual 3D world
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
29. 29.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a digital 3D character (d) frames drawn on a tablet
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
31. 31.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a digital 3D character (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
33. 33.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a stop-motion film (c) a printed photo (d) a cartoon film
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 24 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
36. 36.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a rigged digital model (d) frames drawn on a tablet
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
39. 39.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a computer-built model (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
40. 40.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False

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