SAG 105L Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Silent Film, Exaggeration
28 Nov 2016
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Animators require a good understanding of acting and performance techniques to really bring their characters to life in an animation. Animators must understand their characters: this is to ensure that they convey all of their character"s traits in their animations, this is not easy, animating dips into acting theory. There are a number of acting fundamentals that play a role in animation: animators must create empathy. So that the audience will relate to and care for the characters: emotion plays a key part in this. If animators can make it look like their character is thinking before every action, the character will be more believable. If the character is thinking, the character portrays feelings and emotions. Every action animated must be a reaction to another action. If there is no motivation for the movement, then there is no reason for the character to move: how a movement is animated depends on the situation and the characters themselves.
