Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 652 · 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 of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a rigged digital model (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a framed painting (d) a stop-motion film
4. 4.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a stop-motion film (c) a road sign (d) a greeting card
6. 6.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 27 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
8. 8.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 16 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a flipbook (d) a comic book page
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
13. 13.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a digital 3D character (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a virtual 3D world
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 13 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
15. 15.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in the same place (b) a little further along (c) much bigger (d) in a new colour
16. 16.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) toys shot step by step (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
17. 17.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) squash and stretch (c) persistence of vision (d) the rule of thirds
18. 18.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a computer-built model
19. 19.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) puppets moved bit by bit
20. 20.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a computer-built model (c) a rigged digital model (d) a digital 3D character
21. 21.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) one big painting (c) only sound (d) many still pictures
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a comic book page (c) a printed photo (d) a looping GIF
24. 24.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a digital 3D character (d) frames drawn on a tablet
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a road sign (c) a framed painting (d) a printed photo
27. 27.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a computer-built model (c) a virtual 3D world (d) pencil drawings on paper
28. 28.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a looping GIF (c) a greeting card (d) a stop-motion film
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 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a digital 3D character (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 12 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
37. 37.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a flipbook (c) a video game scene (d) a printed photo
40. 40.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) the bird in the cage (b) an empty cage (c) two birds (d) nothing at all

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