Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 221 · 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 hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
2. 2.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) in a new colour (c) in the same place (d) a little further along
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
5. 5.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) flipbook pages (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) toys shot step by step
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a framed painting (c) a poster on a wall (d) a looping GIF
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
12. 12.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) squash and stretch (c) the rule of thirds (d) persistence of vision
13. 13.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a comic book page (c) a flipbook (d) a cartoon film
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a cartoon film (c) a framed painting (d) a spinning zoetrope
18. 18.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) pixel (c) poster (d) frame
19. 19.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a digital 3D character
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 22 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a looping GIF (d) a road sign
22. 22.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a rigged digital model
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a framed painting (c) a printed photo (d) a video game scene
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
26. 26.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) many still pictures (c) one big painting (d) a single photo
27. 27.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a rigged digital model
28. 28.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) flipbook pages
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
30. 30.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a rigged digital model
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
32. 32.🎞️ 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) nothing at all (c) the bird in the cage (d) two birds
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a printed photo (d) a stop-motion film
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a cartoon film (c) a looping GIF (d) a flipbook
35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
37. 37.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a storyboard (c) a zoetrope (d) a microphone
39. 39.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True

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