Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 513 · 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 of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a virtual 3D world (c) toys shot step by step (d) frames drawn on a tablet
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
3. 3.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a computer-built model (d) a clay model moved a bit
4. 4.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) in the same place (c) much bigger (d) in a new colour
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a stop-motion film (c) a framed painting (d) a road sign
6. 6.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a stop-motion film (c) a flipbook (d) a road sign
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
9. 9.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a digital 3D character (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) toys shot step by step
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
11. 11.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
14. 14.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a zoetrope (c) a microphone (d) a storyboard
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
16. 16.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) frame (c) poster (d) pixel
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
22. 22.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a digital 3D character
25. 25.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) flipbook pages (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) puppets moved bit by bit
26. 26.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a rigged digital model (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
27. 27.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) colour mixing (c) squash and stretch (d) persistence of vision
28. 28.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) a single photo (c) many still pictures (d) only sound
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a flipbook (c) a cartoon film (d) a poster on a wall
31. 31.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) toys shot step by step (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
32. 32.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
35. 35.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
38. 38.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) the bird in the cage (b) two birds (c) an empty cage (d) nothing at all
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
40. 40.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation

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