Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 898 · 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 looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a stop-motion film (d) a poster on a wall
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a stop-motion film (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a flipbook
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
9. 9.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a comic book page (c) a poster on a wall (d) a looping GIF
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 18 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
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) two birds (b) nothing at all (c) an empty cage (d) the bird in the cage
13. 13.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a rigged digital model
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a poster on a wall (c) a printed photo (d) a framed painting
15. 15.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) colour mixing (c) persistence of vision (d) squash and stretch
18. 18.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) flipbook pages (d) a digital 3D character
20. 20.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
23. 23.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
25. 25.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a computer-built model (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) puppets moved bit by bit
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a video game scene (d) a greeting card
27. 27.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) only sound (c) many still pictures (d) one big painting
28. 28.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) the pictures are wet (c) magic ink (d) the paper moves
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
30. 30.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a flipbook (c) a looping GIF (d) a comic book page
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 60 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
37. 37.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) toys shot step by step (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) flipbook pages
38. 38.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 12 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a framed painting (c) a stop-motion film (d) a looping GIF

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