Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 962 · 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.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) magic ink (c) the paper moves (d) the pictures are wet
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
4. 4.🎞️ 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
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
6. 6.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) toys shot step by step (c) flipbook pages (d) puppets moved bit by bit
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a road sign (c) a comic book page (d) a greeting card
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
10. 10.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) only sound (c) many still pictures (d) a single photo
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a cartoon film (d) a looping GIF
12. 12.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a flipbook (c) a microphone (d) a zoetrope
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
14. 14.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) paper cut-outs shot
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
17. 17.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) the rule of thirds (c) persistence of vision (d) squash and stretch
18. 18.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a computer-built model (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) flipbook pages
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a greeting card (c) a framed painting (d) a printed photo
20. 20.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a digital 3D character (c) flipbook pages (d) frames drawn on a tablet
21. 21.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a looping GIF (d) a flipbook
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 28 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
24. 24.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a virtual 3D world
26. 26.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a virtual 3D world (d) puppets moved bit by bit
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a flipbook (c) a video game scene (d) a spinning zoetrope
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 16 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
32. 32.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) toys shot step by step (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) paper cut-outs shot
33. 33.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) frame (c) font (d) pixel
35. 35.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) toys shot step by step (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a computer-built model (d) a rigged digital model
36. 36.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a digital 3D character
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a cartoon film (c) a framed painting (d) a stop-motion film
38. 38.🎞️ 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
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
40. 40.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a virtual 3D world (d) paper cut-outs shot

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