Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 279 · 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 stop-motion film (b) a flipbook (c) a video game scene (d) a road sign
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a looping GIF (c) a comic book page (d) a road sign
4. 4.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) poster (c) pixel (d) frame
5. 5.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) many still pictures (c) a single photo (d) one big painting
6. 6.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) magic ink (c) the paper moves (d) the pictures are wet
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
9. 9.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a digital 3D character (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) paper cut-outs shot
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a framed painting (c) a road sign (d) a poster on a wall
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a stop-motion film (d) a comic book page
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
14. 14.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a digital 3D character (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) puppets moved bit by bit
15. 15.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) toys shot step by step (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
18. 18.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 12 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a poster on a wall (d) a stop-motion film
22. 22.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a zoetrope (c) a microphone (d) a storyboard
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
25. 25.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a computer-built model (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a clay model moved a bit
26. 26.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) it gets louder (c) it plays backwards (d) the movement looks jumpy
28. 28.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) paper cut-outs shot
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 11 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
31. 31.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) two birds (b) the bird in the cage (c) nothing at all (d) an empty cage
32. 32.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a road sign (c) a greeting card (d) a flipbook
35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
38. 38.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
39. 39.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a computer-built model (d) puppets moved bit by bit
40. 40.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True

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