#Week2 : Acting for Animators

Goal of an animator

Communicate a character to audience
To make character feel present in the scene
To lose yourself in the scene
To think through all the possibilities, then make it feel as if the character is in the moment.

Challenges

Actor: is generally one character

Animator is asked to animate a variety of characters

Actor can dive into their character as a whole while animator can dive into their character per shot(s)

Animator has to context switch a lot, jumping between character, unable to feel just one character.

Solutions
In production: lead animators per character. Dedicated core team of animators per character.

Better planning, exploration, age, gender, experience, backstory

Becoming your character