Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 980 · 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.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 40 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 26 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
4. 4.🎞️ 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
5. 5.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
6. 6.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) frame (c) font (d) poster
7. 7.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a digital 3D character (c) toys shot step by step (d) frames drawn on a tablet
8. 8.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (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 in 10 seconds?
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
11. 11.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
14. 14.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it plays backwards (b) the colours fade (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) it gets louder
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
16. 16.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) toys shot step by step (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
17. 17.🎞️ 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) two birds (d) nothing at all
18. 18.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a virtual 3D world (d) paper cut-outs shot
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a flipbook (c) a stop-motion film (d) a cartoon film
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a cartoon film (d) a looping GIF
22. 22.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
24. 24.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a rigged digital model (c) a virtual 3D world (d) pencil drawings on paper
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 60 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a framed painting (c) a flipbook (d) a printed photo
27. 27.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a zoetrope (c) a storyboard (d) a microphone
30. 30.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a computer-built model (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) puppets moved bit by bit
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
36. 36.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) one big painting (c) only sound (d) many still pictures
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a greeting card (c) a framed painting (d) a comic book page
39. 39.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) persistence of vision (c) squash and stretch (d) colour mixing

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