Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 926 · 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.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the eye blends them (c) the pictures are wet (d) the paper moves
2. 2.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a virtual 3D world (c) toys shot step by step (d) pencil drawings on paper
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a printed photo (c) a greeting card (d) a flipbook
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 10 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
5. 5.🎞️ 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
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a framed painting (c) a stop-motion film (d) a printed photo
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a looping GIF (c) a road sign (d) a greeting card
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a printed photo (d) a cartoon film
11. 11.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) flipbook pages (d) paper cut-outs shot
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 40 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
14. 14.🎞️ 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) nothing at all (d) the bird in the cage
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 20 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
17. 17.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) a single photo (c) only sound (d) many still pictures
18. 18.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) toys shot step by step (d) a virtual 3D world
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a stop-motion film (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a framed painting
22. 22.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
23. 23.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) flipbook pages (d) a virtual 3D world
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 of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a computer-built model (d) a clay model moved a bit
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
32. 32.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a road sign (d) a looping GIF
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 60 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
37. 37.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) frame (c) poster (d) font
39. 39.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
40. 40.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion

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