Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 733 · 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 stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
4. 4.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) it plays backwards (c) it gets louder (d) the movement looks jumpy
5. 5.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a digital 3D character (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) flipbook pages
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
7. 7.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) frames drawn on a tablet
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
9. 9.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) toys shot step by step (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 11 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
12. 12.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) a single photo (c) one big painting (d) only sound
13. 13.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) flipbook pages (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a virtual 3D world
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a cartoon film (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a printed photo
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a poster on a wall (c) a video game scene (d) a printed photo
17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
18. 18.🎞️ 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) two birds (c) an empty cage (d) the bird in the cage
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
20. 20.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
21. 21.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) toys shot step by step
22. 22.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a virtual 3D world (c) toys shot step by step (d) pencil drawings on paper
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a printed photo (c) a flipbook (d) a greeting card
24. 24.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a digital 3D character (c) toys shot step by step (d) frames drawn on a tablet
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a road sign (c) a cartoon film (d) a flipbook
27. 27.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) flipbook pages (c) a computer-built model (d) a digital 3D character
28. 28.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) flipbook pages (d) a clay model moved a bit
29. 29.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
32. 32.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
34. 34.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a flipbook (c) a greeting card (d) a video game scene
36. 36.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) persistence of vision (b) squash and stretch (c) the rule of thirds (d) colour mixing
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a poster on a wall (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a stop-motion film
38. 38.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the pictures are wet (c) magic ink (d) the eye blends them

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