Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 985 · 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.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
3. 3.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a greeting card (c) a stop-motion film (d) a road sign
5. 5.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a digital 3D character (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) frames drawn on a tablet
6. 6.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a printed photo (c) a comic book page (d) a video game scene
8. 8.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a digital 3D character (d) flipbook pages
9. 9.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) toys shot step by step (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a rigged digital model
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
11. 11.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) frame (c) pixel (d) poster
12. 12.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) toys shot step by step (d) a virtual 3D world
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a stop-motion film (c) a greeting card (d) a spinning zoetrope
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
15. 15.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a microphone (c) a flipbook (d) a zoetrope
16. 16.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) nothing at all (b) an empty cage (c) the bird in the cage (d) two birds
17. 17.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) toys shot step by step (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a computer-built model
18. 18.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) persistence of vision (c) the rule of thirds (d) squash and stretch
19. 19.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a stop-motion film (c) a looping GIF (d) a road sign
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 64 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a stop-motion film (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a video game scene
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
24. 24.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the movement looks jumpy (b) it plays backwards (c) the colours fade (d) it gets louder
25. 25.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a virtual 3D world (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a clay model moved a bit
26. 26.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
29. 29.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) a little further along (c) in the same place (d) much bigger
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a cartoon film (c) a comic book page (d) a looping GIF
32. 32.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a rigged digital model (d) puppets moved bit by bit
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a looping GIF (c) a poster on a wall (d) a greeting card
36. 36.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
38. 38.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
39. 39.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 13 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?

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