Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 477 · 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 zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
2. 2.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a digital 3D character (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) puppets moved bit by bit
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a printed photo (c) a road sign (d) a poster on a wall
5. 5.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
8. 8.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 39 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
11. 11.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) puppets moved bit by bit
12. 12.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) many still pictures (c) only sound (d) a single photo
15. 15.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) paper cut-outs shot
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a stop-motion film (c) a flipbook (d) a looping GIF
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a framed painting (c) a poster on a wall (d) a stop-motion film
19. 19.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
22. 22.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a digital 3D character (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) toys shot step by step
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
25. 25.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a computer-built model (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) puppets moved bit by bit
26. 26.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a digital 3D character (d) a computer-built model
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a greeting card (c) a looping GIF (d) a road sign
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 20 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
29. 29.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a virtual 3D world (d) pencil drawings on paper
30. 30.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a storyboard (c) a microphone (d) a zoetrope
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) nothing at all (b) the bird in the cage (c) two birds (d) an empty cage
32. 32.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
34. 34.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) frame (c) font (d) poster
35. 35.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) colour mixing (c) persistence of vision (d) the rule of thirds
36. 36.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the movement looks jumpy (b) the colours fade (c) it plays backwards (d) it gets louder
37. 37.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) much bigger (c) in the same place (d) in a new colour
38. 38.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a rigged digital model (d) flipbook pages
39. 39.🎞️ 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
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?

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