Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 395 · 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.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a road sign (d) a greeting card
4. 4.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) persistence of vision (c) the rule of thirds (d) colour mixing
5. 5.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) many still pictures (c) only sound (d) one big painting
6. 6.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) paper cut-outs shot
7. 7.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the pictures are wet (c) the eye blends them (d) magic ink
8. 8.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a rigged digital model
9. 9.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) font (c) poster (d) frame
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
12. 12.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
14. 14.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
15. 15.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a computer-built model (d) pencil drawings on paper
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 12 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a flipbook (c) a video game scene (d) a greeting card
19. 19.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 11 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a printed photo (c) a poster on a wall (d) a flipbook
27. 27.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a looping GIF (c) a printed photo (d) a video game scene
29. 29.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a digital 3D character (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
30. 30.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a digital 3D character (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a virtual 3D world
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) nothing at all (c) an empty cage (d) the bird in the cage
32. 32.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 45 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a video game scene (c) a stop-motion film (d) a cartoon film
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a road sign (c) a video game scene (d) a poster on a wall
39. 39.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
40. 40.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) much bigger (c) in a new colour (d) in the same place

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