Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 925 · 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.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) poster (c) font (d) frame
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a cartoon film (c) a poster on a wall (d) a framed painting
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a stop-motion film (c) a cartoon film (d) a poster on a wall
5. 5.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) the movement looks jumpy (c) it gets louder (d) it plays backwards
7. 7.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) flipbook pages (d) puppets moved bit by bit
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a road sign (c) a printed photo (d) a flipbook
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a video game scene (c) a stop-motion film (d) a flipbook
10. 10.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) puppets moved bit by bit
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a stop-motion film (c) a printed photo (d) a framed painting
12. 12.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
15. 15.🎞️ 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
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 42 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
17. 17.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the pictures are wet (c) the eye blends them (d) magic ink
18. 18.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) a little further along (c) in the same place (d) much bigger
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
22. 22.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) a single photo (c) one big painting (d) only sound
23. 23.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a rigged digital model (d) frames drawn on a tablet
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a looping GIF (c) a comic book page (d) a printed photo
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
26. 26.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a stop-motion film (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a framed painting
29. 29.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a computer-built model (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) pencil drawings on paper
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
31. 31.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) toys shot step by step (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a cartoon film (c) a greeting card (d) a flipbook
35. 35.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a rigged digital model (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a computer-built model
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 20 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
39. 39.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?

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