Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 326 · 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.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it plays backwards (b) the colours fade (c) it gets louder (d) the movement looks jumpy
2. 2.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) puppets moved bit by bit
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a flipbook (c) a cartoon film (d) a printed photo
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
5. 5.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a comic book page (c) a printed photo (d) a greeting card
7. 7.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) a digital 3D character (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a rigged digital model
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
10. 10.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a cartoon film (c) a road sign (d) a flipbook
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a greeting card (c) a looping GIF (d) a video game scene
13. 13.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 10 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
15. 15.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) the bird in the cage (b) two birds (c) an empty cage (d) nothing at all
16. 16.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a rigged digital model (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) flipbook pages
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 18 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
20. 20.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 27 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
22. 22.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) one big painting (c) many still pictures (d) only sound
23. 23.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) toys shot step by step (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) frames drawn on a tablet
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
27. 27.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) font (c) pixel (d) poster
28. 28.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) persistence of vision (c) colour mixing (d) the rule of thirds
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
31. 31.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a microphone (c) a flipbook (d) a zoetrope
32. 32.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) flipbook pages (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a computer-built model
33. 33.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a digital 3D character (d) a virtual 3D world
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
36. 36.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
38. 38.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a rigged digital model (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a virtual 3D world
39. 39.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) the pictures are wet (c) the paper moves (d) magic ink
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a framed painting (c) a printed photo (d) a video game scene

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