Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 877 · 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 road sign (c) a greeting card (d) a framed painting
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 8 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
5. 5.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a digital 3D character (c) flipbook pages (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
8. 8.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a rigged digital model (c) toys shot step by step (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 14 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
12. 12.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
13. 13.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) flipbook pages (c) a computer-built model (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
14. 14.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) toys shot step by step (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
15. 15.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) many still pictures (c) a single photo (d) one big painting
17. 17.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) poster (c) font (d) pixel
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a comic book page (c) a flipbook (d) a cartoon film
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
20. 20.🎞️ 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
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
22. 22.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) much bigger (c) in the same place (d) a little further along
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
24. 24.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a digital 3D character (c) flipbook pages (d) paper cut-outs shot
25. 25.🎞️ 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
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a looping GIF (c) a greeting card (d) a flipbook
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a looping GIF (c) a video game scene (d) a flipbook
28. 28.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a microphone (c) a zoetrope (d) a storyboard
29. 29.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a road sign (c) a flipbook (d) a looping GIF
35. 35.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) flipbook pages (d) frames drawn on a tablet
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 18 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
37. 37.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a computer-built model
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
39. 39.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True

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