Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 94 · 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 looping GIF (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a stop-motion film (d) a comic book page
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
4. 4.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) toys shot step by step (d) a virtual 3D world
5. 5.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
7. 7.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a computer-built model (d) frames drawn on a tablet
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a greeting card (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a framed painting
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a flipbook (c) a framed painting (d) a video game scene
11. 11.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a zoetrope (c) a microphone (d) a flipbook
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a road sign (c) a looping GIF (d) a spinning zoetrope
13. 13.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a cartoon film (c) a framed painting (d) a comic book page
15. 15.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) only sound (c) a single photo (d) many still pictures
16. 16.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a digital 3D character (d) paper cut-outs shot
17. 17.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the pictures are wet (b) the paper moves (c) magic ink (d) the eye blends them
18. 18.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) persistence of vision (c) squash and stretch (d) the rule of thirds
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
21. 21.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a computer-built model
22. 22.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 9 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
24. 24.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a virtual 3D world
25. 25.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) much bigger (c) in the same place (d) a little further along
26. 26.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a virtual 3D world (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) puppets moved bit by bit
28. 28.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
30. 30.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) frame (c) font (d) poster
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a greeting card (c) a flipbook (d) a looping GIF
32. 32.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a stop-motion film (c) a greeting card (d) a poster on a wall
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 16 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
35. 35.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the movement looks jumpy (b) it gets louder (c) the colours fade (d) it plays backwards
36. 36.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
37. 37.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) the bird in the cage (b) an empty cage (c) nothing at all (d) two birds
38. 38.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
39. 39.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a comic book page (c) a poster on a wall (d) a looping GIF

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