Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 966 · 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 happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) it gets louder (c) it plays backwards (d) the movement looks jumpy
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a greeting card (c) a cartoon film (d) a spinning zoetrope
3. 3.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
8. 8.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) poster (c) frame (d) font
10. 10.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) a single photo (c) one big painting (d) only sound
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 60 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
13. 13.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) magic ink (c) the pictures are wet (d) the paper moves
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a flipbook (c) a cartoon film (d) a road sign
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
18. 18.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a virtual 3D world
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a cartoon film (c) a video game scene (d) a printed photo
22. 22.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a framed painting (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a printed photo
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a framed painting (c) a stop-motion film (d) a looping GIF
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 9 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
26. 26.🎞️ 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) two birds (c) nothing at all (d) an empty cage
27. 27.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a greeting card (c) a flipbook (d) a printed photo
30. 30.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a virtual 3D world
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a framed painting (c) a video game scene (d) a road sign
32. 32.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a comic book page (c) a looping GIF (d) a greeting card
35. 35.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 15 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
39. 39.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) squash and stretch (c) persistence of vision (d) colour mixing
40. 40.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True

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