Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 998 · 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 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
2. 2.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a digital 3D character (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a computer-built model
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a road sign (c) a flipbook (d) a looping GIF
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
5. 5.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a microphone (c) a flipbook (d) a zoetrope
6. 6.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the pictures are wet (b) the eye blends them (c) magic ink (d) the paper moves
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 27 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
8. 8.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a poster on a wall (c) a cartoon film (d) a flipbook
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a framed painting (c) a looping GIF (d) a stop-motion film
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a video game scene (c) a comic book page (d) a framed painting
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
17. 17.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
19. 19.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) many still pictures (c) only sound (d) one big painting
20. 20.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a virtual 3D world (c) toys shot step by step (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
21. 21.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) frames drawn on a tablet
22. 22.🎞️ 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) two birds (c) an empty cage (d) the bird in the cage
23. 23.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 48 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
25. 25.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
27. 27.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) frame (c) pixel (d) font
28. 28.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a rigged digital model (c) a virtual 3D world (d) paper cut-outs shot
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a cartoon film (c) a video game scene (d) a comic book page
31. 31.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) toys shot step by step (c) a virtual 3D world (d) frames drawn on a tablet
35. 35.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) much bigger (c) in the same place (d) in a new colour
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
37. 37.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) persistence of vision (c) the rule of thirds (d) colour mixing
38. 38.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a video game scene (c) a cartoon film (d) a greeting card
40. 40.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion

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