When projected, in a cinema these small movements become exaggerated and readable from a distance because a close up on the screen can be many meters high. In live action acting movements and gestures can be allowed to be subtle, almost minimal – the slight raising of an eyebrow or shift of focus. Still of the Homunculus from ‘The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse’ (Universal/Tiger Aspect/Film Four) This character not only had to act like the three main characters from the League of Gentlemen, but also had to move like a monster. I believe that acting for animation is distinctly different from live-action acting for film and is closer to performaning on the stage. It is moving these in such a way as to lead your audience to believe that this ‘thing’ can actually think for itself. Acting for animation is the art of taking on board the personality and character traits of another and translating them to a previously inanimate object, a cg model, a puppet or a drawing. Quite simply acting is pretending to be someone or something else. Lets go through this step by step, from the beginning, which is understanding what acting actually is. If I could get the performamce right then my audience would be on board.īut to get there we need to know what the process is… I realised that if I wanted to make my characters believable they needed to act, and so I needed to understand how you go about creating the personality and character. I was fascinated by this and this for me was a useful starting point as a character animator. One night a line or a gesture could get a laugh, the next night the opposite. It was here, watching performances night after night that I grew to understand that when an actor changes their intonation or a movement from that of a previous performance they can ellicit a completely different reaction from the audience. Before I became an animator I had spent many years working in the theatre.
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