Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 940 · 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.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) a single photo (c) one big painting (d) only sound
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a framed painting (c) a road sign (d) a poster on a wall
3. 3.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) magic ink (c) the pictures are wet (d) the eye blends them
5. 5.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) flipbook pages (d) a digital 3D character
6. 6.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
7. 7.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) toys shot step by step (d) a clay model moved a bit
8. 8.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 22 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
9. 9.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a rigged digital model (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) puppets moved bit by bit
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
11. 11.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
14. 14.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a flipbook (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a printed photo
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
18. 18.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
20. 20.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) flipbook pages (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a digital 3D character
21. 21.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 16 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
25. 25.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) flipbook pages (c) toys shot step by step (d) a computer-built model
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a road sign (c) a looping GIF (d) a spinning zoetrope
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
28. 28.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a microphone (c) a flipbook (d) a zoetrope
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
32. 32.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🎞️ 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
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 10 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
36. 36.🎞️ 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) the bird in the cage (c) nothing at all (d) two birds
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a stop-motion film (c) a flipbook (d) a cartoon film
38. 38.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) toys shot step by step
39. 39.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) poster (c) pixel (d) frame
40. 40.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a digital 3D character (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) pencil drawings on paper

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