Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 589 · 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.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
3. 3.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) one big painting (c) a single photo (d) many still pictures
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a cartoon film (d) a road sign
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 13 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 39 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a looping GIF (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a cartoon film
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
10. 10.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a computer-built model
11. 11.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
14. 14.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a rigged digital model (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
16. 16.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the pictures are wet (c) the eye blends them (d) magic ink
17. 17.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) toys shot step by step (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
18. 18.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) flipbook pages (c) a digital 3D character (d) a virtual 3D world
19. 19.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) toys shot step by step (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 22 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
22. 22.🎞️ 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) nothing at all (c) an empty cage (d) the bird in the cage
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a comic book page (c) a video game scene (d) a printed photo
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
25. 25.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a rigged digital model (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a comic book page (c) a cartoon film (d) a road sign
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
28. 28.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) poster (c) frame (d) font
29. 29.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) in the same place (c) a little further along (d) much bigger
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a road sign (c) a comic book page (d) a spinning zoetrope
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
32. 32.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a virtual 3D world (d) frames drawn on a tablet
33. 33.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
36. 36.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 33 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
38. 38.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a digital 3D character (d) paper cut-outs shot
39. 39.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
40. 40.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a microphone (b) a storyboard (c) a flipbook (d) a zoetrope

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