Two events focusing on Acting & Performance in animation.

To assist you with the coming Action Analysis and Performance Milestone, this week we have two events focusing on Acting & Performance in animation. In addition, for those of you doing a CG animation, Mark Palowich continues his rigging workshop series.




Wednesday 11 am S235
First up is the Wednesday lecture, where Sheridan's Stephen Barnes will offer his insights into acting as applied to animation. Stephen does this in a way that might be new to you - carefully studying the subtle cues used by actors in live-action film and television. Steve's talk, titled Inspired Acting: A Study of Great Moments From Great Actors, is essential viewing. It's also very entertaining, as Steve  peppers the talk with many fascinating and unusual film clips.







Wednesday 3 pm, A361
This is followed at 3 pm by an introduction to the Video Reference system that we have set up in the 4th Year studio. Stephen Barnes is again in charge, showing us the basic usage of video reference for animation. It would be great to have someone perform a character action scene from their film for the purpose of demonstration. Any volunteers?











Thursday 2 pm, A150

Mark Palowich will continue his series on rigging in the A150 lab. Bring your character rigs for Mark to analyse, critique and undoubtedly improve.