Animation Worksheet: Part 1 Test

Animation and design lesson 8: Part 1 test: animation · Set 631 · 40 questions

Creator's tip (Find the topic, use the idea): Find the topic: moving pictures, fps, flipbooks, keyframes, stop motion, principles or storyboards. Use that lesson’s rule — frames = seconds × fps; in-betweens = b − a − 1; photos = seconds × photos per second. For principles, ask: is it getting ready, bending, keeping on moving, easing, curving or about the number of frames?

1. 1.🧸 Why can light from a window spoil a stop-motion film? (a) the light keeps changing (b) it stops the camera (c) windows are noisy (d) it turns photos round
2. 2.🎬 An animation plays at 25 frames per second (fps). How many frames are in 7 seconds?
3. 3.🔑 When an animation app draws the in-betweens for you, it is called … (a) squashing (b) cropping (c) tweening (d) zooming
4. 4.🎬 An animation at 30 fps runs for 5 minutes. How many frames does it have?
5. 5.🔑 A ball moves from 0 cm to 32 cm in 4 equal steps. How far from the start is it after step 3 (in cm)?
6. 6.📋 What is a storyboard? (a) drawings of each shot (b) a list of sounds (c) the final colours (d) a font style
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a flipbook (c) a comic book page (d) a greeting card
8. 8.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
9. 9.📒 A flipbook needs 28 pages. You have drawn 7. How many pages are still to draw?
10. 10.True or false: “a note under a panel” is part of the script. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.📒 Good or poor flipbook tip: “change a bit each page”? (a) good tip (b) poor tip
12. 12.🧸 A clay car must move 16 cm in 4 equal moves, one move for each photo. How many cm is each move?
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
14. 14.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
15. 15.🎬 A clip has 48 frames and plays at 12 fps. How many seconds long is it? =
16. 16.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “shoot by a sunny window”? (a) poor tip (b) good tip
17. 17.🔢 To make a flipbook, which comes first: “flip with your thumb” or “draw the first page”? (a) flip with your thumb (b) draw the first page
18. 18.🎬 Starting and ending a move gently, with more frames near the stops, is … (a) anticipation (b) slow in and slow out (c) arcs (d) squash and stretch
19. 19.📒 Good or poor flipbook tip: “skip numbering pages”? (a) poor tip (b) good tip
20. 20.📒 Each flipbook page takes you 2 minutes to draw. How many minutes do 22 pages take?
21. 21.True or false: “a line a character says” is part of the script. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.Which of these is about timing? (a) a breath before a shout (b) fast move, fewer frames (c) cheeks squash in a grin (d) crouch before a jump
23. 23.🎬 An animation plays at 60 frames per second (fps). How many frames are in 3 seconds?
24. 24.📋 Script, storyboard or animatic: “an arrow for movement”? (a) the animatic (b) the script (c) the storyboard
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a greeting card (d) a road sign
26. 26.🧸 A clay car must move 18 cm in 6 equal moves, one move for each photo. How many cm is each move?
27. 27.🔢 To make a flipbook, which comes first: “draw the first page” or “repeat to the last page”? (a) draw the first page (b) repeat to the last page
28. 28.🔑 A scene has 4 keyframes in a row, with 1 in-betweens between each pair of neighbouring keyframes. How many drawings is that in all?
29. 29.📒 A flipbook needs 55 pages. You have drawn 24. How many pages are still to draw?
30. 30.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) flipbook pages (c) a rigged digital model (d) a computer-built model
31. 31.📋 A storyboard looks most like … (a) a shopping list (b) a comic strip (c) a calendar (d) a map
32. 32.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a microphone (b) a storyboard (c) a zoetrope (d) a flipbook
33. 33.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a rigged digital model (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a flipbook (c) a printed photo (d) a stop-motion film
35. 35.🔢 To make an animated film, which is the LAST step? (a) share the final film (b) draw the keyframes (c) write the story idea (d) draw the storyboard
36. 36.🔑 Keyframe or in-between: “just before landing”? (a) in-between (b) keyframe
37. 37.🔑 An animator draws keyframes on frame 17 and frame 24. How many in-between frames are there between them?
38. 38.True or false: “a head turns in a curve” shows follow-through. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.Which of these shows slow in and slow out? (a) crouch before a jump (b) fast move, fewer frames (c) a thrown ball curves (d) more frames near stops
40. 40.🔢 To make an animated film, which is the FIRST step? (a) write the story idea (b) add the in-betweens (c) draw the keyframes (d) add colour and sound

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