Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 100 · 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.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the eye blends them (c) the paper moves (d) the pictures are wet
3. 3.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) persistence of vision (c) squash and stretch (d) the rule of thirds
4. 4.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) toys shot step by step
5. 5.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a comic book page (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a road sign
8. 8.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
10. 10.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a rigged digital model
11. 11.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
13. 13.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) frame (c) font (d) pixel
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a looping GIF (c) a comic book page (d) a road sign
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a looping GIF (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a framed painting
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 22 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
19. 19.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) flipbook pages (d) toys shot step by step
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
21. 21.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
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) an empty cage (b) two birds (c) nothing at all (d) the bird in the cage
23. 23.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a computer-built model (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a virtual 3D world
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a flipbook (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a poster on a wall
25. 25.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a virtual 3D world (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 8 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
30. 30.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it plays backwards (b) the colours fade (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) it gets louder
31. 31.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a storyboard (c) a zoetrope (d) a microphone
33. 33.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) flipbook pages (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a digital 3D character
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a greeting card (c) a video game scene (d) a framed painting
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
36. 36.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) only sound (c) a single photo (d) many still pictures
37. 37.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) a little further along (c) in a new colour (d) in the same place
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a printed photo (c) a greeting card (d) a stop-motion film
40. 40.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) paper cut-outs shot

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