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Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 879 · 40 questions
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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.

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  1. 1.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a comic book page (c) a video game scene (d) a greeting card
  2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
  3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
  4. 4.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a clay model moved a bit
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a poster on a wall (c) a flipbook (d) a printed photo
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a video game scene (c) a road sign (d) a looping GIF
  7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
  8. 8.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a framed painting (c) a stop-motion film (d) a spinning zoetrope
  11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
  12. 12.🎞️ 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) two birds (c) nothing at all (d) the bird in the cage
  13. 13.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a road sign (c) a stop-motion film (d) a framed painting
  15. 15.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a computer-built model (c) toys shot step by step (d) flipbook pages
  17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
  18. 18.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) many still pictures (c) one big painting (d) only sound
  19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 24 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
  20. 20.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) pixel (c) frame (d) poster
  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.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
  24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 11 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
  25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 16 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
  26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
  27. 27.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) the rule of thirds (c) squash and stretch (d) persistence of vision
  28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
  29. 29.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 48 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
  31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
  32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
  33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
  34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 13 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
  35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a poster on a wall (c) a cartoon film (d) a framed painting
  37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
  38. 38.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a digital 3D character (d) a virtual 3D world
  39. 39.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 22 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?

Answer key

  1. a video game scene
  2. 81
  3. 2D drawn animation
  4. a virtual 3D world
  5. a flipbook
  6. a road sign
  7. 3D computer animation
  8. False
  9. True
  10. a framed painting
  11. 48
  12. the bird in the cage
  13. True
  14. a stop-motion film
  15. True
  16. a computer-built model
  17. 48
  18. many still pictures
  19. 2
  20. frame
  21. 32
  22. False
  23. 90
  24. 1
  25. 1
  26. stop-motion
  27. persistence of vision
  28. 196
  29. True
  30. 4
  31. 2D drawn animation
  32. 2D drawn animation
  33. 22
  34. 1
  35. stop-motion
  36. a cartoon film
  37. stop-motion
  38. flipbook pages
  39. True
  40. 2

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