Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 539 · 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.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in the same place (b) much bigger (c) in a new colour (d) a little further along
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
3. 3.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a zoetrope (c) a microphone (d) a storyboard
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a greeting card (d) a road sign
5. 5.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) two birds (b) an empty cage (c) nothing at all (d) the bird in the cage
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
7. 7.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a digital 3D character
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a stop-motion film (c) a road sign (d) a greeting card
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
11. 11.🎞️ 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
12. 12.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a rigged digital model (d) frames drawn on a tablet
13. 13.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) the pictures are wet (c) magic ink (d) the paper moves
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a greeting card (c) a flipbook (d) a poster on a wall
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a video game scene (c) a comic book page (d) a framed painting
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 30 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a greeting card (c) a printed photo (d) a cartoon film
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
21. 21.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) one big painting (c) a single photo (d) only sound
22. 22.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
23. 23.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) persistence of vision (b) squash and stretch (c) colour mixing (d) the rule of thirds
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a printed photo (c) a comic book page (d) a looping GIF
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 27 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
28. 28.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a computer-built model (d) a virtual 3D world
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a cartoon film (c) a looping GIF (d) a spinning zoetrope
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 8 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
33. 33.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a looping GIF (c) a video game scene (d) a stop-motion film
35. 35.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) flipbook pages (d) a rigged digital model
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 56 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a greeting card (c) a video game scene (d) a spinning zoetrope
40. 40.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False

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