Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 822 · 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 kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a poster on a wall (c) a framed painting (d) a road sign
6. 6.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 52 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a looping GIF (c) a cartoon film (d) a greeting card
9. 9.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) an empty cage (b) two birds (c) the bird in the cage (d) nothing at all
10. 10.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a virtual 3D world (d) paper cut-outs shot
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
12. 12.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the pictures are wet (b) the eye blends them (c) magic ink (d) the paper moves
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a video game scene (c) a framed painting (d) a poster on a wall
14. 14.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) one big painting (c) many still pictures (d) only sound
15. 15.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 48 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
18. 18.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) toys shot step by step (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) flipbook pages
19. 19.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a framed painting (c) a video game scene (d) a spinning zoetrope
22. 22.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a computer-built model (d) pencil drawings on paper
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a stop-motion film (c) a video game scene (d) a spinning zoetrope
24. 24.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 24 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a greeting card (c) a road sign (d) a flipbook
28. 28.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in the same place (b) much bigger (c) a little further along (d) in a new colour
29. 29.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a microphone (c) a zoetrope (d) a storyboard
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a poster on a wall (c) a framed painting (d) a printed photo
31. 31.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a computer-built model (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) pencil drawings on paper
32. 32.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
34. 34.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) font (c) pixel (d) poster
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
36. 36.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a rigged digital model
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
38. 38.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a digital 3D character (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) pencil drawings on paper
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 48 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
40. 40.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False

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