Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 900 · 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.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) one big painting (c) only sound (d) many still pictures
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
3. 3.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a virtual 3D world (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) flipbook pages
4. 4.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a computer-built model (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
5. 5.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a computer-built model (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a video game scene (c) a printed photo (d) a looping GIF
7. 7.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) it plays backwards (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) the colours fade
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a looping GIF (c) a poster on a wall (d) a spinning zoetrope
9. 9.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 42 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a framed painting (c) a printed photo (d) a stop-motion film
17. 17.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) flipbook pages (d) a virtual 3D world
18. 18.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a zoetrope (c) a microphone (d) a storyboard
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
20. 20.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a looping GIF (c) a comic book page (d) a printed photo
25. 25.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) persistence of vision (c) the rule of thirds (d) squash and stretch
26. 26.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a rigged digital model (c) a digital 3D character (d) puppets moved bit by bit
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a cartoon film (c) a stop-motion film (d) a road sign
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 14 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
29. 29.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
31. 31.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) nothing at all (b) an empty cage (c) two birds (d) the bird in the cage
32. 32.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
34. 34.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a computer-built model (c) a rigged digital model (d) frames drawn on a tablet
35. 35.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a computer-built model (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
37. 37.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a digital 3D character (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a clay model moved a bit
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
39. 39.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion

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