Animation Worksheet: Stop Motion

Animation and design lesson 5: Stop-motion animation · Set 103 · 40 questions

Creator's tip (Move, snap, repeat): Steps: build the set and models → fix the camera → take one photo → move the model a little → repeat → play the photos fast. Photos = seconds × photos per second; seconds = photos ÷ photos per second. Still camera, steady lamp light, tiny moves, hands out of shot.

1. 1.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “keep hands out of shots”? (a) good tip (b) poor tip
2. 2.🧸 Why can light from a window spoil a stop-motion film? (a) it stops the camera (b) it turns photos round (c) windows are noisy (d) the light keeps changing
3. 3.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “switch lamps mid-scene”? (a) good tip (b) poor tip
4. 4.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “tape the set down”? (a) poor tip (b) good tip
5. 5.True or false: “keep the camera still” is a poor stop-motion tip. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, what comes right after “build the set and models”? (a) play the photos fast (b) repeat photo and move (c) move the model a little (d) fix the camera in place
7. 7.🧸 Which of these is often used for stop-motion models? (a) smoke (b) soap bubbles (c) ice cream (d) modelling clay
8. 8.🧸 You took 80 photos for a stop-motion film that plays at 10 photos per second. How many seconds long is it?
9. 9.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 12 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 3 seconds?
10. 10.True or false: “shoot by a sunny window” is a good stop-motion tip. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.True or false: “move in tiny steps” is a good stop-motion tip. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 10 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 2 seconds?
13. 13.🧸 Why must the camera stay perfectly still? (a) so the set does not jump (b) so photos are blurry (c) to make it louder (d) to save battery
14. 14.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “make big jumps each move”? (a) poor tip (b) good tip
15. 15.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, which comes first: “repeat photo and move” or “move the model a little”? (a) move the model a little (b) repeat photo and move
16. 16.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, which is the LAST step? (a) fix the camera in place (b) move the model a little (c) repeat photo and move (d) play the photos fast
17. 17.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 15 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 10 seconds?
18. 18.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, which comes first: “fix the camera in place” or “play the photos fast”? (a) play the photos fast (b) fix the camera in place
19. 19.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 12 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 13 seconds?
20. 20.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “use steady lamp light”? (a) poor tip (b) good tip
21. 21.🧸 A clay car must move 40 cm in 10 equal moves, one move for each photo. How many cm is each move?
22. 22.🧸 Moving a model in very tiny steps makes the film … (a) louder (b) faster and jumpier (c) shorter (d) slower and smoother
23. 23.🧸 Each stop-motion photo takes 30 seconds to set up and shoot. How many minutes do 30 photos take?
24. 24.🧸 You took 110 photos for a stop-motion film that plays at 10 photos per second. How many seconds long is it?
25. 25.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 15 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 5 seconds?
26. 26.🧸 A clay car must move 44 cm in 11 equal moves, one move for each photo. How many cm is each move?
27. 27.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, which comes first: “fix the camera in place” or “take one photo”? (a) fix the camera in place (b) take one photo
28. 28.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “move in tiny steps”? (a) good tip (b) poor tip
29. 29.🧸 A clay car must move 28 cm in 7 equal moves, one move for each photo. How many cm is each move?
30. 30.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 15 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 19 seconds?
31. 31.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, which comes first: “play the photos fast” or “fix the camera in place”? (a) play the photos fast (b) fix the camera in place
32. 32.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 12 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 17 seconds?
33. 33.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “keep the camera still”? (a) good tip (b) poor tip
34. 34.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, which comes first: “play the photos fast” or “take one photo”? (a) play the photos fast (b) take one photo
35. 35.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, what comes right after “take one photo”? (a) repeat photo and move (b) move the model a little (c) fix the camera in place (d) build the set and models
36. 36.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 10 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 7 seconds?
37. 37.🧸 A clay car must move 18 cm in 9 equal moves, one move for each photo. How many cm is each move?
38. 38.True or false: “make big jumps each move” is a good stop-motion tip. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “leave a hand in shot”? (a) good tip (b) poor tip
40. 40.🧸 A clay car must move 3 cm in 3 equal moves, one move for each photo. How many cm is each move?

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