Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 924 · 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 cartoon film (b) a flipbook (c) a comic book page (d) a stop-motion film
2. 2.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) one big painting (c) many still pictures (d) only sound
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a printed photo (c) a video game scene (d) a stop-motion film
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a flipbook (c) a stop-motion film (d) a spinning zoetrope
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a looping GIF (c) a framed painting (d) a printed photo
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a stop-motion film (c) a road sign (d) a video game scene
8. 8.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
9. 9.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the movement looks jumpy (b) it gets louder (c) it plays backwards (d) the colours fade
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
11. 11.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a digital 3D character (d) toys shot step by step
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
14. 14.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
15. 15.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the paper moves (c) the pictures are wet (d) the eye blends them
16. 16.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) toys shot step by step (d) a rigged digital model
17. 17.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
20. 20.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a computer-built model (d) a virtual 3D world
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
22. 22.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a printed photo (c) a cartoon film (d) a comic book page
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
25. 25.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
27. 27.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) in the same place (c) in a new colour (d) a little further along
29. 29.🎞️ 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) two birds (c) nothing at all (d) the bird in the cage
30. 30.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a computer-built model (d) paper cut-outs shot
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
33. 33.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a stop-motion film (c) a looping GIF (d) a cartoon film
35. 35.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a greeting card (c) a printed photo (d) a framed painting
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
38. 38.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a framed painting (c) a greeting card (d) a printed photo
40. 40.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a rigged digital model (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a digital 3D character

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