Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 997 · 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 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
3. 3.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) the pictures are wet (c) magic ink (d) the paper moves
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
5. 5.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a virtual 3D world (d) paper cut-outs shot
6. 6.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
8. 8.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a poster on a wall (c) a comic book page (d) a spinning zoetrope
10. 10.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a digital 3D character (d) a virtual 3D world
11. 11.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
13. 13.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) toys shot step by step
14. 14.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) toys shot step by step (d) a clay model moved a bit
15. 15.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 64 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
19. 19.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it plays backwards (b) it gets louder (c) the colours fade (d) the movement looks jumpy
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a stop-motion film (c) a flipbook (d) a looping GIF
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
23. 23.🎞️ 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
24. 24.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) a single photo (c) only sound (d) many still pictures
25. 25.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a clay model moved a bit
26. 26.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a greeting card (c) a video game scene (d) a looping GIF
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
30. 30.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a framed painting (d) a looping GIF
32. 32.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) puppets moved bit by bit
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 33 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
35. 35.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) pixel (c) font (d) frame
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
37. 37.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🎞️ 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
39. 39.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a microphone (c) a flipbook (d) a zoetrope
40. 40.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) flipbook pages (d) puppets moved bit by bit

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