Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 870 · 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.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) persistence of vision (c) squash and stretch (d) colour mixing
2. 2.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a microphone (b) a flipbook (c) a storyboard (d) a zoetrope
3. 3.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a digital 3D character (d) toys shot step by step
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a cartoon film (c) a flipbook (d) a road sign
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
8. 8.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a comic book page (c) a stop-motion film (d) a spinning zoetrope
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a printed photo (c) a video game scene (d) a poster on a wall
12. 12.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the pictures are wet (b) the eye blends them (c) the paper moves (d) magic ink
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
14. 14.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) in a new colour (c) much bigger (d) in the same place
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
19. 19.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a rigged digital model
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 18 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
22. 22.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
23. 23.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a rigged digital model
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 56 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 22 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
27. 27.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) one big painting (c) many still pictures (d) only sound
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a printed photo (c) a framed painting (d) a comic book page
29. 29.🎞️ 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
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a comic book page (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a road sign
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
34. 34.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) flipbook pages (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
35. 35.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) pixel (c) frame (d) font
36. 36.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the movement looks jumpy (b) the colours fade (c) it plays backwards (d) it gets louder
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
39. 39.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True

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