Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 993 · 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 has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
2. 2.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) much bigger (c) in a new colour (d) in the same place
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a framed painting (c) a greeting card (d) a spinning zoetrope
5. 5.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a computer-built model (d) toys shot step by step
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
7. 7.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) squash and stretch (c) the rule of thirds (d) persistence of vision
8. 8.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a computer-built model (d) a rigged digital model
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
10. 10.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a looping GIF (c) a flipbook (d) a video game scene
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
14. 14.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
15. 15.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) poster (c) frame (d) font
16. 16.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) toys shot step by step (d) puppets moved bit by bit
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a looping GIF (c) a stop-motion film (d) a greeting card
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a printed photo (d) a cartoon film
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
22. 22.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
23. 23.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a computer-built model
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 30 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
26. 26.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a virtual 3D world (c) flipbook pages (d) a clay model moved a bit
27. 27.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a computer-built model (d) a rigged digital model
28. 28.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
34. 34.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a greeting card (c) a printed photo (d) a flipbook
38. 38.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 56 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
40. 40.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) two birds (b) an empty cage (c) the bird in the cage (d) nothing at all

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