Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 462 · 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 spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a microphone (c) a zoetrope (d) a storyboard
2. 2.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) many still pictures (c) a single photo (d) one big painting
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 44 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a greeting card (c) a comic book page (d) a looping GIF
5. 5.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the eye blends them (c) magic ink (d) the pictures are wet
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
10. 10.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a flipbook (c) a video game scene (d) a looping GIF
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a comic book page (c) a stop-motion film (d) a looping GIF
13. 13.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a computer-built model (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) frames drawn on a tablet
14. 14.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
15. 15.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a virtual 3D world (d) frames drawn on a tablet
16. 16.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 28 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
19. 19.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a computer-built model
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
21. 21.🎞️ 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) the bird in the cage (c) nothing at all (d) two birds
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
25. 25.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) flipbook pages (d) a computer-built model
26. 26.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a rigged digital model (c) a digital 3D character (d) a clay model moved a bit
27. 27.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) poster (c) font (d) frame
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a flipbook (c) a cartoon film (d) a spinning zoetrope
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a printed photo (c) a road sign (d) a greeting card
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a stop-motion film (c) a poster on a wall (d) a spinning zoetrope
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
37. 37.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) in a new colour (c) in the same place (d) a little further along
38. 38.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True

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