Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 958 · 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 poster on a wall (b) a greeting card (c) a video game scene (d) a road sign
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a flipbook (c) a looping GIF (d) a road sign
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
5. 5.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a clay model moved a bit
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a stop-motion film (c) a cartoon film (d) a spinning zoetrope
8. 8.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) many still pictures (c) a single photo (d) only sound
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
10. 10.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) the colours fade (c) it plays backwards (d) the movement looks jumpy
11. 11.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a storyboard (c) a zoetrope (d) a microphone
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a flipbook (c) a cartoon film (d) a spinning zoetrope
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a greeting card (c) a printed photo (d) a looping GIF
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
16. 16.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) flipbook pages (d) a digital 3D character
17. 17.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) the bird in the cage (b) two birds (c) an empty cage (d) nothing at all
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a flipbook (c) a looping GIF (d) a poster on a wall
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
22. 22.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) flipbook pages (d) a rigged digital model
23. 23.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a virtual 3D world
24. 24.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 10 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
27. 27.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) persistence of vision (b) colour mixing (c) squash and stretch (d) the rule of thirds
28. 28.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) toys shot step by step (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a clay model moved a bit
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
30. 30.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a flipbook (d) a printed photo
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 11 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
33. 33.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
35. 35.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) in the same place (c) in a new colour (d) much bigger
36. 36.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 40 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
38. 38.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a computer-built model
39. 39.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) magic ink (c) the paper moves (d) the pictures are wet
40. 40.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False

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