Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 91 · 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.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a cartoon film (c) a stop-motion film (d) a comic book page
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
3. 3.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) a single photo (c) one big painting (d) many still pictures
4. 4.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) frame (c) font (d) pixel
5. 5.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
7. 7.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) persistence of vision (b) colour mixing (c) squash and stretch (d) the rule of thirds
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a framed painting (c) a poster on a wall (d) a stop-motion film
9. 9.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a cartoon film (c) a comic book page (d) a greeting card
11. 11.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) it gets louder (c) it plays backwards (d) the movement looks jumpy
12. 12.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a virtual 3D world (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) puppets moved bit by bit
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a looping GIF (c) a video game scene (d) a cartoon film
16. 16.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a computer-built model (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
17. 17.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) an empty cage (b) nothing at all (c) the bird in the cage (d) two birds
18. 18.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a virtual 3D world (d) flipbook pages
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
20. 20.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) puppets moved bit by bit
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
23. 23.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a computer-built model (d) toys shot step by step
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
25. 25.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a flipbook (c) a zoetrope (d) a microphone
26. 26.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a rigged digital model
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a comic book page (c) a looping GIF (d) a printed photo
28. 28.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) magic ink (c) the pictures are wet (d) the paper moves
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 26 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
31. 31.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a flipbook (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a stop-motion film
35. 35.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 15 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
38. 38.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) much bigger (c) in the same place (d) a little further along
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
40. 40.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation

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