Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 338 · 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 of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a virtual 3D world (d) paper cut-outs shot
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
3. 3.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a zoetrope (c) a flipbook (d) a microphone
4. 4.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a rigged digital model (d) a digital 3D character
5. 5.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a rigged digital model (d) flipbook pages
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
8. 8.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) it plays backwards (c) it gets louder (d) the movement looks jumpy
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a looping GIF (c) a road sign (d) a greeting card
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a cartoon film (c) a framed painting (d) a printed photo
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 20 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
14. 14.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
15. 15.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) flipbook pages (d) puppets moved bit by bit
16. 16.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🎞️ 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
20. 20.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the eye blends them (c) the paper moves (d) the pictures are wet
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a printed photo (c) a cartoon film (d) a flipbook
22. 22.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
23. 23.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) paper cut-outs shot
24. 24.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) a single photo (c) only sound (d) one big painting
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a cartoon film (c) a comic book page (d) a flipbook
27. 27.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a rigged digital model (d) pencil drawings on paper
28. 28.🎞️ 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
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a video game scene (c) a framed painting (d) a road sign
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a poster on a wall (c) a flipbook (d) a comic book page
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
32. 32.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) poster (c) pixel (d) frame
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a poster on a wall (c) a looping GIF (d) a spinning zoetrope
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a framed painting (c) a stop-motion film (d) a cartoon film
35. 35.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
38. 38.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 8 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
40. 40.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a computer-built model (d) toys shot step by step

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