Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 524 · 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.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) magic ink (c) the pictures are wet (d) the paper moves
2. 2.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) flipbook pages (d) a digital 3D character
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
4. 4.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a video game scene (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a poster on a wall
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a framed painting (c) a greeting card (d) a comic book page
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a poster on a wall (c) a printed photo (d) a flipbook
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
11. 11.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a computer-built model (d) a clay model moved a bit
12. 12.🎞️ 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
13. 13.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
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 stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) flipbook pages (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a clay model moved a bit
16. 16.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a road sign (c) a flipbook (d) a stop-motion film
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
19. 19.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a video game scene (c) a greeting card (d) a poster on a wall
22. 22.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) pixel (c) poster (d) font
23. 23.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🎞️ 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) nothing at all (d) an empty cage
25. 25.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a rigged digital model (d) paper cut-outs shot
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a printed photo (c) a comic book page (d) a spinning zoetrope
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
31. 31.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
36. 36.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a digital 3D character (c) toys shot step by step (d) a virtual 3D world
37. 37.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) a little further along (c) in the same place (d) in a new colour
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a stop-motion film (c) a framed painting (d) a looping GIF
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?

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