Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 464 · 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 poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a cartoon film (c) a looping GIF (d) a flipbook
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 18 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
5. 5.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) toys shot step by step (d) a virtual 3D world
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
7. 7.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a rigged digital model (c) a digital 3D character (d) flipbook pages
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a framed painting (c) a road sign (d) a spinning zoetrope
9. 9.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
11. 11.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the eye blends them (c) the pictures are wet (d) the paper moves
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
13. 13.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) frame (c) font (d) poster
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a framed painting (c) a printed photo (d) a poster on a wall
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a greeting card (c) a looping GIF (d) a printed photo
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a video game scene (c) a flipbook (d) a road sign
18. 18.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) toys shot step by step (d) flipbook pages
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
20. 20.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a digital 3D character (d) frames drawn on a tablet
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 27 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a comic book page (c) a video game scene (d) a stop-motion film
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
25. 25.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) the movement looks jumpy (c) the colours fade (d) it plays backwards
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a comic book page (c) a stop-motion film (d) a poster on a wall
27. 27.🎞️ 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
28. 28.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
31. 31.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) a rigged digital model (c) a virtual 3D world (d) puppets moved bit by bit
32. 32.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a stop-motion film (c) a framed painting (d) a flipbook
36. 36.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) the rule of thirds (c) persistence of vision (d) colour mixing
38. 38.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
40. 40.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a rigged digital model (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) puppets moved bit by bit

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