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Digital Acting Tutorial

  Published by brian on January 25th, 2007 in Tutorials

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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  1. 1 Virgilio Edit Link Jan 25th, 2007 at 9:17 pm

    Excellent one, brian!

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

    Cheers

  2. 2 MathiasPedersen Edit Link Jan 25th, 2007 at 9:19 pm

    Nice. Interesting little read.

    //Mathias

  3. 3 Brian Edit Link Jan 25th, 2007 at 9:42 pm

    Thanks Virgilio! Hope everyone finds it useful.

  4. 4 PiPi Edit Link Jan 25th, 2007 at 9:57 pm

    Great, excellent post. Thx!

  5. 5 Kram1032 Edit Link Jan 25th, 2007 at 10:30 pm

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

  6. 6 Kram1032 Edit Link Jan 25th, 2007 at 10:32 pm

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

  7. 7 Bart Edit Link Jan 25th, 2007 at 10:56 pm

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

  8. 8 ccherrett Edit Link Jan 25th, 2007 at 10:56 pm

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

  9. 9 theteach Edit Link Jan 25th, 2007 at 11:38 pm

    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

  10. 10 Terence Edit Link Jan 26th, 2007 at 2:22 pm

    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.

  11. 11 Kram1032 Edit Link Jan 26th, 2007 at 3:17 pm

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

  12. 12 toontje Edit Link Jan 27th, 2007 at 4:11 am

    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.

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