Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 569 · 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) magic ink (b) the pictures are wet (c) the paper moves (d) the eye blends them
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a flipbook (c) a road sign (d) a framed painting
3. 3.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 13 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
5. 5.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
6. 6.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a computer-built model (d) a rigged digital model
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
9. 9.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a framed painting (c) a comic book page (d) a video game scene
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a poster on a wall (c) a framed painting (d) a comic book page
12. 12.🎞️ 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) the bird in the cage (c) nothing at all (d) an empty cage
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
14. 14.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a computer-built model (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a printed photo (c) a stop-motion film (d) a spinning zoetrope
16. 16.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a digital 3D character (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
20. 20.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) toys shot step by step (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a rigged digital model
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a cartoon film (c) a road sign (d) a greeting card
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a comic book page (c) a framed painting (d) a printed photo
23. 23.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
24. 24.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a storyboard (c) a microphone (d) a zoetrope
25. 25.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) in a new colour (c) much bigger (d) in the same place
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a road sign (c) a framed painting (d) a stop-motion film
29. 29.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) one big painting (c) only sound (d) many still pictures
30. 30.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a computer-built model
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
32. 32.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) a rigged digital model (c) a digital 3D character (d) puppets moved bit by bit
34. 34.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) font (c) pixel (d) poster
35. 35.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a digital 3D character (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a video game scene (c) a greeting card (d) a spinning zoetrope
37. 37.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
39. 39.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
40. 40.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False

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