Timing and Movement
This worksheet marks itself
Set it as homework or classwork and every answer is marked as pupils go, with feedback on what they got wrong. The scores go straight into your mark book, so you can see who needs help before the next lesson.
- 11 questions
- 35 marks
- about 40 minutes
- marked instantly
Question types: short answer, multiple choice, true or false, fill the gap, matching.
Try one from this worksheet
Two animations use the exact same START and END keyframes for a ball, but one version looks fast and the other looks slow. What has been changed to create this difference?
Pick an answer: it's marked straight away, just as your pupils would see it.
About this resource
Animation & Storytelling — Lesson 4 of 6. How frame spacing creates the feeling of speed, ease in/ease out for believable movement, and common timing mistakes to avoid. Built and tested in Animation Studio (/student/animation-studio).
16 slides.
Lesson outline
- Hook — Same Frames, Different Feel
- Do Now — Retrieval
- Spacing = Speed
- Quick Check — Spacing
- Ease In and Ease Out
- I Do — Timing One Bounce
- I Do — A Car Pulling Away
- Hinge Check — Realistic Timing
- Common Timing Mistakes
- We Do — Boulder vs Feather
- Spot the Timing Mistake
- You Do — Time a Bounce in Animation Studio
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