Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 920 · 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 comic book page (b) a road sign (c) a printed photo (d) a stop-motion film
2. 2.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a greeting card (c) a comic book page (d) a cartoon film
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a road sign (c) a video game scene (d) a poster on a wall
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
10. 10.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) one big painting (c) many still pictures (d) only sound
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a video game scene (c) a greeting card (d) a spinning zoetrope
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 14 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
15. 15.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🎞️ 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
17. 17.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a rigged digital model (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a computer-built model
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
21. 21.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) toys shot step by step (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) frames drawn on a tablet
22. 22.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
23. 23.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a rigged digital model
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
25. 25.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a digital 3D character (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) paper cut-outs shot
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a cartoon film (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a comic book page
28. 28.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a computer-built model (d) flipbook pages
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
31. 31.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 16 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
33. 33.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a rigged digital model (c) flipbook pages (d) paper cut-outs shot
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
35. 35.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it plays backwards (b) it gets louder (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) the colours fade
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
37. 37.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
38. 38.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False

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