Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 887 · 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.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) magic ink (c) the pictures are wet (d) the eye blends them
2. 2.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the movement looks jumpy (b) it plays backwards (c) it gets louder (d) the colours fade
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a flipbook (d) a road sign
5. 5.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
7. 7.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a digital 3D character (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) pencil drawings on paper
8. 8.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in the same place (b) in a new colour (c) a little further along (d) much bigger
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a looping GIF (c) a poster on a wall (d) a flipbook
12. 12.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) flipbook pages (d) pencil drawings on paper
13. 13.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a framed painting (c) a cartoon film (d) a spinning zoetrope
15. 15.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a computer-built model
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
19. 19.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a flipbook (c) a microphone (d) a zoetrope
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 20 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a printed photo (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a video game scene
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a printed photo (c) a framed painting (d) a flipbook
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 10 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
27. 27.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) one big painting (c) a single photo (d) only sound
29. 29.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a digital 3D character (d) a clay model moved a bit
30. 30.🎞️ 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) an empty cage (c) two birds (d) nothing at all
31. 31.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) toys shot step by step (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a computer-built model
32. 32.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) toys shot step by step (d) flipbook pages
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a road sign (c) a poster on a wall (d) a looping GIF
34. 34.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a virtual 3D world (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) flipbook pages
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 40 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
36. 36.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a flipbook (c) a comic book page (d) a spinning zoetrope
38. 38.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) persistence of vision (b) colour mixing (c) the rule of thirds (d) squash and stretch
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a framed painting (c) a cartoon film (d) a comic book page

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