Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 931 · 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 spinning zoetrope (b) a cartoon film (c) a flipbook (d) a poster on a wall
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
3. 3.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a computer-built model (d) flipbook pages
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a cartoon film (c) a flipbook (d) a looping GIF
8. 8.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a storyboard (d) a microphone
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 24 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a poster on a wall (c) a framed painting (d) a greeting card
14. 14.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) flipbook pages
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
16. 16.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) a little further along (c) in a new colour (d) in the same place
17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
18. 18.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) colour mixing (c) persistence of vision (d) squash and stretch
20. 20.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) toys shot step by step (c) a digital 3D character (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
21. 21.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) one big painting (c) many still pictures (d) a single photo
22. 22.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) flipbook pages (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a digital 3D character
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a comic book page (c) a flipbook (d) a printed photo
25. 25.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
27. 27.🎞️ 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
28. 28.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) two birds (b) the bird in the cage (c) nothing at all (d) an empty cage
29. 29.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a cartoon film (c) a looping GIF (d) a road sign
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a looping GIF (c) a stop-motion film (d) a framed painting
33. 33.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
36. 36.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a digital 3D character (d) a clay model moved a bit
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 33 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
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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