Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 636 · 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.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a framed painting (c) a flipbook (d) a comic book page
2. 2.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a digital 3D character (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
3. 3.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) nothing at all (b) an empty cage (c) two birds (d) the bird in the cage
4. 4.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) one big painting (c) only sound (d) many still pictures
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a flipbook (c) a video game scene (d) a comic book page
9. 9.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a video game scene (c) a framed painting (d) a spinning zoetrope
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
12. 12.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a digital 3D character
13. 13.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 24 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
15. 15.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) the pictures are wet (c) the paper moves (d) magic ink
16. 16.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a comic book page (c) a poster on a wall (d) a video game scene
18. 18.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a computer-built model (d) a virtual 3D world
19. 19.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) squash and stretch (c) colour mixing (d) persistence of vision
20. 20.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it plays backwards (b) it gets louder (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) the colours fade
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
22. 22.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) pixel (c) poster (d) font
23. 23.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a printed photo (c) a stop-motion film (d) a spinning zoetrope
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
27. 27.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a digital 3D character (c) a virtual 3D world (d) flipbook pages
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a framed painting (c) a looping GIF (d) a comic book page
31. 31.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a virtual 3D world (d) paper cut-outs shot
34. 34.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a rigged digital model (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a clay model moved a bit
35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
36. 36.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
37. 37.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 27 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a flipbook (d) a poster on a wall
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?

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