Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 951 · 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.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) persistence of vision (b) colour mixing (c) squash and stretch (d) the rule of thirds
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 64 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a stop-motion film (d) a printed photo
5. 5.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) flipbook pages (c) a digital 3D character (d) a virtual 3D world
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 14 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
8. 8.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
10. 10.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) toys shot step by step (c) flipbook pages (d) frames drawn on a tablet
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a looping GIF (c) a video game scene (d) a poster on a wall
13. 13.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a computer-built model (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) puppets moved bit by bit
14. 14.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a rigged digital model (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) frames drawn on a tablet
15. 15.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) in a new colour (c) much bigger (d) in the same place
17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
18. 18.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a rigged digital model
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 56 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
22. 22.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
23. 23.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) it gets louder (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) it plays backwards
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a looping GIF (c) a framed painting (d) a cartoon film
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a printed photo (d) a comic book page
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
29. 29.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 26 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a video game scene (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a looping GIF
33. 33.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🎞️ 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) two birds (d) the bird in the cage
35. 35.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a storyboard (c) a microphone (d) a flipbook
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
37. 37.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) many still pictures (c) only sound (d) one big painting
38. 38.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a virtual 3D world (d) flipbook pages
39. 39.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
40. 40.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a digital 3D character

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