Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 882 · 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.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a rigged digital model
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a stop-motion film (c) a printed photo (d) a poster on a wall
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a stop-motion film (c) a greeting card (d) a flipbook
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
8. 8.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a computer-built model (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a clay model moved a bit
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a flipbook (c) a looping GIF (d) a cartoon film
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
12. 12.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a looping GIF (c) a stop-motion film (d) a comic book page
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a printed photo (c) a framed painting (d) a poster on a wall
15. 15.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
17. 17.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) many still pictures (c) a single photo (d) one big painting
18. 18.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
21. 21.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a video game scene (c) a road sign (d) a greeting card
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a video game scene (c) a poster on a wall (d) a stop-motion film
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a greeting card (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a printed photo
26. 26.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) persistence of vision (c) squash and stretch (d) the rule of thirds
27. 27.🎞️ 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) nothing at all (d) the bird in the cage
28. 28.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in the same place (b) in a new colour (c) much bigger (d) a little further along
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
30. 30.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a rigged digital model
31. 31.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a storyboard (d) a microphone
32. 32.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) font (c) pixel (d) frame
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
34. 34.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a digital 3D character
35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
36. 36.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) toys shot step by step (d) flipbook pages
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 52 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?

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