Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 897 · 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 spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) magic ink (c) the pictures are wet (d) the paper moves
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a road sign (c) a flipbook (d) a cartoon film
5. 5.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a virtual 3D world (d) flipbook pages
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
8. 8.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) colour mixing (c) squash and stretch (d) persistence of vision
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 15 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a framed painting (c) a looping GIF (d) a printed photo
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a framed painting (c) a comic book page (d) a spinning zoetrope
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
16. 16.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a rigged digital model (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) frames drawn on a tablet
17. 17.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) toys shot step by step (d) a digital 3D character
18. 18.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a computer-built model
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a video game scene (c) a framed painting (d) a stop-motion film
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 16 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
21. 21.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a rigged digital model (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a computer-built model
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a looping GIF (d) a stop-motion film
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a looping GIF (c) a video game scene (d) a flipbook
24. 24.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a printed photo (c) a greeting card (d) a stop-motion film
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 44 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
33. 33.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) pixel (c) poster (d) font
35. 35.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a flipbook (c) a zoetrope (d) a microphone
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a looping GIF (c) a printed photo (d) a video game scene
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a poster on a wall (c) a video game scene (d) a framed painting
39. 39.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) it gets louder (c) it plays backwards (d) the movement looks jumpy
40. 40.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False

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