Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 672 · 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.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 18 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
2. 2.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a video game scene (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a looping GIF
5. 5.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a digital 3D character (d) paper cut-outs shot
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 60 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 64 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
8. 8.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a clay model moved a bit
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a poster on a wall (c) a printed photo (d) a stop-motion film
11. 11.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) many still pictures (c) a single photo (d) one big painting
12. 12.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a computer-built model (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a virtual 3D world
13. 13.🎞️ 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) the bird in the cage (d) an empty cage
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a flipbook (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a printed photo
15. 15.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it plays backwards (b) the movement looks jumpy (c) the colours fade (d) it gets louder
16. 16.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a computer-built model (d) puppets moved bit by bit
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a video game scene (c) a cartoon film (d) a framed painting
18. 18.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 24 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 48 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a stop-motion film (c) a comic book page (d) a video game scene
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a road sign (c) a framed painting (d) a poster on a wall
26. 26.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
28. 28.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) the paper moves (c) magic ink (d) the pictures are wet
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 52 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
31. 31.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a computer-built model (d) pencil drawings on paper
32. 32.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in the same place (b) much bigger (c) in a new colour (d) a little further along
33. 33.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 clay model moved a bit
34. 34.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a virtual 3D world
35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
36. 36.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a road sign (c) a cartoon film (d) a flipbook
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
39. 39.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation

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