For this module i have decided to take the direction of character animation. One of my main concerns is overlapping what other modules are requiring of me in this department. So i have decided to be more specific and attempt to look more at the acting part of character animation.
What makes us empathize with characters?
What is empathy?
And to what extent can traditional acting techniques be applied to 3d character animation?
These will be questions that drive my research. This research will hopefully result in approximatly 6 short animations focusing on character acting and animation above technically prowess.
Great examples of this sort of animation includes Graduate work from animation mentor, but also top schools such as he Vancouver film school and the french animation school Gobelins.
I will be linkin to animations which i feel work well in regards to acting or even just impact upon me in any significant way.
Ill also be using the works of Ed Hooks as reference. Ed Hooks has given lectures around the world at universities schools colleges and studios on the topic of acting for animators. After attending his workshop at animaex last year, I left feeling extremly positive about my choice of specialization. And his theories address the key issues of the difference between acting yourself and acting through a character. Namely one occurs in the present, acting on stage your performing 'live' so to speak whilst character animation is acting but through the character thinking about the performance as a whole. Ed hooks makes this a lot clearer and i will likely post my notes from his seminar as well as notes from his books i find particularly relevent.
Before christmas i will be concerned only with research and the assigned group project, after christmas i will begin producing the animations
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