Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 172 · 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.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
2. 2.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the eye blends them (c) the pictures are wet (d) the paper moves
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a cartoon film (c) a video game scene (d) a stop-motion film
4. 4.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
6. 6.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) a single photo (c) many still pictures (d) only sound
7. 7.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) it plays backwards (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) the colours fade
8. 8.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a video game scene (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a framed painting
10. 10.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) much bigger (c) a little further along (d) in the same place
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a printed photo (c) a flipbook (d) a road sign
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
14. 14.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a clay model moved a bit
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
16. 16.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
20. 20.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a comic book page (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a flipbook
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a road sign (d) a video game scene
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
25. 25.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a printed photo (d) a comic book page
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
28. 28.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a rigged digital model (d) pencil drawings on paper
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a framed painting (c) a comic book page (d) a printed photo
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
31. 31.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a video game scene (c) a poster on a wall (d) a greeting card
35. 35.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a rigged digital model (d) pencil drawings on paper
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
38. 38.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?

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