Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 422 · 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 comic book page (b) a video game scene (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a looping GIF
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
5. 5.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a rigged digital model (d) paper cut-outs shot
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a stop-motion film (c) a framed painting (d) a spinning zoetrope
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
9. 9.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a poster on a wall (c) a flipbook (d) a greeting card
11. 11.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a printed photo (c) a video game scene (d) a spinning zoetrope
13. 13.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a rigged digital model (d) paper cut-outs shot
14. 14.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) in a new colour (c) a little further along (d) in the same place
15. 15.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) toys shot step by step (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a virtual 3D world
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
17. 17.🎞️ 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) two birds (d) the bird in the cage
18. 18.🎞️ 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
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 22 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
20. 20.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) only sound (c) one big painting (d) a single photo
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a printed photo (c) a comic book page (d) a poster on a wall
23. 23.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a computer-built model (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a clay model moved a bit
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a video game scene (c) a looping GIF (d) a road sign
26. 26.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) pencil drawings on paper
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 9 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
28. 28.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a computer-built model (c) a rigged digital model (d) frames drawn on a tablet
29. 29.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a microphone (b) a zoetrope (c) a storyboard (d) a flipbook
30. 30.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) colour mixing (c) the rule of thirds (d) persistence of vision
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a framed painting (c) a cartoon film (d) a road sign
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a greeting card (c) a looping GIF (d) a video game scene
34. 34.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) toys shot step by step (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) flipbook pages (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a stop-motion film (c) a road sign (d) a greeting card
36. 36.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
37. 37.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a computer-built model
38. 38.🎞️ 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
39. 39.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation

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