Animation Worksheet: Stop Motion

Animation and design lesson 5: Stop-motion animation · Set 483 · 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.🧸 Which of these is often used for stop-motion models? (a) modelling clay (b) ice cream (c) soap bubbles (d) smoke
2. 2.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “bump the table often”? (a) poor tip (b) good tip
3. 3.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, which comes first: “fix the camera in place” or “repeat photo and move”? (a) repeat photo and move (b) fix the camera in place
4. 4.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, what comes right after “take one photo”? (a) play the photos fast (b) move the model a little (c) repeat photo and move (d) build the set and models
5. 5.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 15 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 12 seconds?
6. 6.True or false: “leave a hand in shot” is a good stop-motion tip. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.🧸 Why can light from a window spoil a stop-motion film? (a) the light keeps changing (b) it stops the camera (c) it turns photos round (d) windows are noisy
8. 8.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 15 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 8 seconds?
9. 9.🧸 In stop-motion, how is movement made? (a) speeding up a song (b) drawing on glass (c) photos of small moves (d) one long video
10. 10.🧸 Each stop-motion photo takes 15 seconds to set up and shoot. How many minutes do 64 photos take?
11. 11.True or false: “use steady lamp light” is a good stop-motion tip. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🧸 Each stop-motion photo takes 20 seconds to set up and shoot. How many minutes do 21 photos take?
13. 13.True or false: “use steady lamp light” is a poor stop-motion tip. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🧸 You took 120 photos for a stop-motion film that plays at 10 photos per second. How many seconds long is it?
15. 15.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 15 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 20 seconds?
16. 16.🧸 A clay car must move 12 cm in 12 equal moves, one move for each photo. How many cm is each move?
17. 17.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 12 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 9 seconds?
18. 18.🧸 Each stop-motion photo takes 15 seconds to set up and shoot. How many minutes do 80 photos take?
19. 19.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “use steady lamp light”? (a) good tip (b) poor tip
20. 20.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, which comes first: “take one photo” or “fix the camera in place”? (a) fix the camera in place (b) take one photo
21. 21.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “tape the set down”? (a) good tip (b) poor tip
22. 22.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, which comes first: “move the model a little” or “fix the camera in place”? (a) fix the camera in place (b) move the model a little
23. 23.🧸 You took 170 photos for a stop-motion film that plays at 10 photos per second. How many seconds long is it?
24. 24.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, which comes first: “repeat photo and move” or “fix the camera in place”? (a) fix the camera in place (b) repeat photo and move
25. 25.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, which comes first: “take one photo” or “move the model a little”? (a) take one photo (b) move the model a little
26. 26.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, which comes first: “build the set and models” or “repeat photo and move”? (a) repeat photo and move (b) build the set and models
27. 27.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, which comes first: “move the model a little” or “build the set and models”? (a) move the model a little (b) build the set and models
28. 28.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “keep hands out of shots”? (a) good tip (b) poor tip
29. 29.🧸 Good or poor stop-motion tip: “move in tiny steps”? (a) good tip (b) poor tip
30. 30.🧸 Each stop-motion photo takes 15 seconds to set up and shoot. How many minutes do 32 photos take?
31. 31.True or false: “move in tiny steps” is a good stop-motion tip. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, which is the FIRST step? (a) move the model a little (b) take one photo (c) build the set and models (d) fix the camera in place
33. 33.True or false: “shoot by a sunny window” is a poor stop-motion tip. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🧸 Why must the camera stay perfectly still? (a) to make it louder (b) so the set does not jump (c) so photos are blurry (d) to save battery
35. 35.🔢 To make a stop-motion film, what comes right after “repeat photo and move”? (a) take one photo (b) fix the camera in place (c) build the set and models (d) play the photos fast
36. 36.🧸 Each stop-motion photo takes 10 seconds to set up and shoot. How many minutes do 114 photos take?
37. 37.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 10 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 2 seconds?
38. 38.🧸 A stop-motion film plays at 10 photos per second. How many photos do you need for 10 seconds?
39. 39.🧸 A clay car must move 8 cm in 4 equal moves, one move for each photo. How many cm is each move?
40. 40.True or false: “keep the camera still” is a good stop-motion tip. (a) True (b) False

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