Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 297 · 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.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a stop-motion film (c) a poster on a wall (d) a printed photo
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
5. 5.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a virtual 3D world (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) paper cut-outs shot
6. 6.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 40 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
8. 8.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) frame (c) poster (d) pixel
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a comic book page (c) a looping GIF (d) a spinning zoetrope
10. 10.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a virtual 3D world
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a looping GIF (c) a road sign (d) a spinning zoetrope
13. 13.🎞️ 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) an empty cage (d) nothing at all
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
17. 17.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a digital 3D character (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) frames drawn on a tablet
18. 18.🎞️ 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
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 27 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a greeting card (c) a road sign (d) a flipbook
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a flipbook (c) a video game scene (d) a stop-motion film
23. 23.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) flipbook pages (c) a rigged digital model (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a framed painting (c) a flipbook (d) a spinning zoetrope
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
29. 29.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) persistence of vision (c) the rule of thirds (d) squash and stretch
30. 30.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) flipbook pages (c) a rigged digital model (d) frames drawn on a tablet
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
33. 33.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) many still pictures (c) one big painting (d) only sound
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 8 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
37. 37.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the pictures are wet (c) magic ink (d) the eye blends them
39. 39.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a digital 3D character (c) a rigged digital model (d) pencil drawings on paper
40. 40.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a virtual 3D world (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) toys shot step by step

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