Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 217 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a cartoon film (c) a greeting card (d) a looping GIF
2. 2.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a stop-motion film (c) a poster on a wall (d) a flipbook
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a comic book page (c) a cartoon film (d) a framed painting
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
8. 8.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) only sound (c) many still pictures (d) a single photo
9. 9.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the pictures are wet (b) magic ink (c) the paper moves (d) the eye blends them
10. 10.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in the same place (b) much bigger (c) in a new colour (d) a little further along
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
14. 14.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a rigged digital model (d) frames drawn on a tablet
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a looping GIF (c) a flipbook (d) a road sign
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a flipbook (d) a cartoon film
17. 17.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
18. 18.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) poster (c) font (d) frame
20. 20.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) flipbook pages (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) toys shot step by step
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a flipbook (c) a printed photo (d) a framed painting
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
24. 24.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 33 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
30. 30.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
34. 34.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a virtual 3D world (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) frames drawn on a tablet
35. 35.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the movement looks jumpy (b) the colours fade (c) it gets louder (d) it plays backwards
36. 36.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a microphone (b) a zoetrope (c) a flipbook (d) a storyboard
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 30 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
39. 39.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a rigged digital model (d) a computer-built model
40. 40.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False

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