Digital Acting Tutorial
The 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:
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.
Excellent one, brian!
Seeing further than just tech stuff is great! Thanks for this post
Cheers
Nice. Interesting little read.
//Mathias
Thanks Virgilio! Hope everyone finds it useful.
Great, excellent post. Thx!
Very Nice!!!(I know: my mainpost is too short to be the mainpart xD)
oh… someone deleted the post…
Please delete mine two, except the last few lines, thx.
@Kram1032: done! Such comments are just trolling. I removed them and blocked his IP.
Great little article. It gave me some new thoughts :)
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
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.
@Bart: thx! :)
Noone should say something like this, especially, if he doesn’t even say, why.
Vladius T at least wrote, why…
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.