Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 932 · 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 printed photo (b) a stop-motion film (c) a poster on a wall (d) a greeting card
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 48 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
3. 3.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) many still pictures (c) only sound (d) a single photo
4. 4.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a storyboard (c) a microphone (d) a flipbook
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a comic book page (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a greeting card
7. 7.🎞️ 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
8. 8.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a virtual 3D world (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) paper cut-outs shot
9. 9.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a virtual 3D world
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a stop-motion film (d) a greeting card
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 10 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
12. 12.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a framed painting (c) a poster on a wall (d) a video game scene
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
17. 17.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) much bigger (c) in a new colour (d) in the same place
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 26 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
21. 21.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a virtual 3D world (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) frames drawn on a tablet
22. 22.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a poster on a wall (c) a printed photo (d) a road sign
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
27. 27.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a printed photo (c) a cartoon film (d) a road sign
29. 29.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) poster (c) frame (d) font
31. 31.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
35. 35.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a rigged digital model
37. 37.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a road sign (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a looping GIF

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