Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 908 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a road sign (c) a comic book page (d) a flipbook
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a poster on a wall (c) a flipbook (d) a looping GIF
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
5. 5.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 30 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
7. 7.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) many still pictures (c) one big painting (d) only sound
8. 8.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a digital 3D character
9. 9.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) pixel (c) poster (d) frame
10. 10.🎞️ 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) nothing at all (c) two birds (d) the bird in the cage
11. 11.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a digital 3D character (d) flipbook pages
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a looping GIF (d) a flipbook
13. 13.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) squash and stretch (c) the rule of thirds (d) persistence of vision
14. 14.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) flipbook pages (c) a rigged digital model (d) paper cut-outs shot
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
17. 17.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a digital 3D character (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) toys shot step by step
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 9 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a framed painting (c) a road sign (d) a stop-motion film
22. 22.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) a digital 3D character (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) puppets moved bit by bit
23. 23.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
24. 24.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) flipbook pages (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) toys shot step by step
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a video game scene (c) a poster on a wall (d) a framed painting
27. 27.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the pictures are wet (b) magic ink (c) the paper moves (d) the eye blends them
28. 28.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
30. 30.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 11 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
32. 32.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a stop-motion film (d) a looping GIF
34. 34.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
36. 36.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a framed painting (c) a greeting card (d) a road sign
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
40. 40.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a zoetrope (c) a microphone (d) a flipbook

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