Digital Acting Tutorial

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maestri10fig01.jpgThe technical aspects of animating and rendering are not all there is. Its important to understand that bringing the scene and character to life is essential to producing appealing work.

In this article by George Maestri some helpful tips are given on how to bring your character to life. Split into four sections:

  1. Acting
  2. Acting and Story
  3. Know Your Characters
  4. Acting Technique

The website describes the article:

Bringing your character to life means being able to think and breathe like your character – essentially, understanding the techniques of acting. In this article, George Maestri teaches a crash course in acting for the animator.

Its a good article with some helpful tips on how important it is to link your digital acting with real life acting and to know your characters.

Check out the article here.

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    • http://www.dilid.com/otto Virgilio

      Excellent one, brian!

      Seeing further than just tech stuff is great! Thanks for this post

      Cheers

    • http://mathiaspedersen.com MathiasPedersen

      Nice. Interesting little read.

      //Mathias

    • http://www.cginsomniac.com Brian

      Thanks Virgilio! Hope everyone finds it useful.

    • http://3danimacija.org PiPi

      Great, excellent post. Thx!

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      Very Nice!!!(I know: my mainpost is too short to be the mainpart xD)

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      oh… someone deleted the post…
      Please delete mine two, except the last few lines, thx.

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      @Kram1032: done! Such comments are just trolling. I removed them and blocked his IP.

    • ccherrett

      Great little article. It gave me some new thoughts :)

    • theteach

      While on the same topic Acting for Animators is a great book. It is chalked full of useful info.

      http://www.amazon.com/Acting-Animators-Revised-Performance-Animation/dp/032500580X

    • Terence

      Also, George Maestri’s Digital Character Animation is an excellent resource. It’s cross platform and full of great techniques for everything from designing characters to rigging and animating.

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      @Bart: thx! :)
      Noone should say something like this, especially, if he doesn’t even say, why.
      Vladius T at least wrote, why…

    • toontje

      Bummer! I tried to buy the pdf version of the book, but just before checkout it says there is no transporters defined yet and to contact the administrator. I searched the site, there is no administrator defined also.