Acting and Performance for Animation

Chapter 1

Aspects of Acting for Animation

As animators working with character-based narratives, we must start by considering ourselves as actors and performers; it is just that instead of treading the boards ourselves, we send out our creations to do our bidding in front of the audience. We must also appreciate that acting is not simply a group of characters performing the lines written in the script. Much of a performance may be completely unrelated to the actual dialogue a character delivers, and it may not be even be shaped or driven by the characters at all but by a raft of other elements relating to the narrative. In this chapter, we take a brief look at a number of elements that the animator may have to consider when dealing with performance-based ...