Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 888 · 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 cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a cartoon film (c) a stop-motion film (d) a greeting card
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a flipbook (c) a road sign (d) a looping GIF
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
5. 5.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🎞️ 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) nothing at all (c) the bird in the cage (d) an empty cage
7. 7.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) flipbook pages (d) a virtual 3D world
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
11. 11.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the pictures are wet (c) magic ink (d) the eye blends them
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 12 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
14. 14.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
15. 15.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) toys shot step by step (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a clay model moved a bit
16. 16.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) only sound (c) many still pictures (d) a single photo
18. 18.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) squash and stretch (c) persistence of vision (d) the rule of thirds
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 13 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
20. 20.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
22. 22.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a video game scene (c) a road sign (d) a printed photo
24. 24.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) frames drawn on a tablet
25. 25.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
27. 27.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a storyboard (c) a microphone (d) a zoetrope
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
30. 30.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) flipbook pages
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a framed painting (c) a printed photo (d) a spinning zoetrope
33. 33.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the movement looks jumpy (b) the colours fade (c) it plays backwards (d) it gets louder
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
35. 35.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) toys shot step by step (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a computer-built model
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a video game scene (d) a comic book page
37. 37.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
40. 40.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False

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