Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 953 · 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 of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a computer-built model (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a clay model moved a bit
2. 2.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) flipbook pages (d) paper cut-outs shot
3. 3.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🎞️ 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
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a flipbook (c) a stop-motion film (d) a spinning zoetrope
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a flipbook (c) a poster on a wall (d) a framed painting
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
8. 8.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
10. 10.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a rigged digital model (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
11. 11.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) one big painting (c) only sound (d) many still pictures
12. 12.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a rigged digital model (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a virtual 3D world
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a looping GIF (c) a flipbook (d) a video game scene
14. 14.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
16. 16.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) the rule of thirds (c) persistence of vision (d) colour mixing
17. 17.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a digital 3D character (c) a computer-built model (d) puppets moved bit by bit
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 48 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a comic book page (c) a video game scene (d) a framed painting
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
21. 21.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) pixel (c) frame (d) poster
22. 22.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a road sign (c) a flipbook (d) a stop-motion film
26. 26.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) toys shot step by step (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a comic book page (c) a poster on a wall (d) a framed painting
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 40 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 10 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
34. 34.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
36. 36.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
38. 38.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) a little further along (c) in a new colour (d) in the same place
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 16 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
40. 40.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) flipbook pages (d) puppets moved bit by bit

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