Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 565 · 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.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) font (c) frame (d) pixel
2. 2.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a virtual 3D world (c) flipbook pages (d) puppets moved bit by bit
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a printed photo (c) a road sign (d) a framed painting
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.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a rigged digital model
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
9. 9.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a clay model moved a bit
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
11. 11.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) magic ink (c) the eye blends them (d) the pictures are wet
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a looping GIF (d) a cartoon film
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
16. 16.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
18. 18.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a zoetrope (c) a microphone (d) a flipbook
20. 20.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a digital 3D character (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a computer-built model
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
22. 22.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
25. 25.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) a single photo (c) only sound (d) many still pictures
26. 26.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) it plays backwards (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) it gets louder
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) two birds (d) the bird in the cage
28. 28.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) flipbook pages (c) toys shot step by step (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 48 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a cartoon film (c) a greeting card (d) a video game scene
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
34. 34.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 52 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 26 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
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) colour mixing (d) persistence of vision
38. 38.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a cartoon film (c) a stop-motion film (d) a flipbook
40. 40.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True

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