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17. Acting and Movement for Animators: Students, Teachers, and Professionals
Half-Day, Monday, 1 August, 8:30 am - 12:15 pm
Room 502A
Level: Beginning
Animators perceive and apply acting theory in a different way than do stage actors. Ed Hooks, author of Acting for Animators (revised 2nd edition, 2003), pioneered acting workshops that are specifically designed for the needs of the animator. Each consists of a lecture, simple improvisations, and acting analysis and deconstruction of clips from films. Hooks does not try to make stage actors out of animators. He teaches them acting theory in a fun, painless, and empowering way.
The primary focus of Acting for Animators is to explore the connections among thinking, emotion, and physical action as they relate to performance animation.
Attendance at this course is highly encouraged. Its exclusive content will not be recorded in any post-conference video documentation.
Prerequisites
No prerequisites except an open mind and a willingness to explore new ideas.
Intended Audience
Professional animators, students, and teachers of animation.
Organizer
John C. Finnegan
Purdue University
Lecturer
Ed Hooks
Schedule
| 8:30 |
Introduction
Finnegan and Hooks
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| 8:45 |
Acting Theory Lecture and discussion
Hooks
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| 10:15 |
Break
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| 10:30 |
Power Centers
- Two Animators at a Time to Improvise
- Status Transactions
- Psychological Gesture
- Show Film Clips from "Multiplicity" and "A Streetcar Named Desire" These clips demonstrate power centers
- Status Transactions and Michael Chekhov's Psychological Gesture
Hooks
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| 11:30 |
Deconstruction of "Father and Daughter" by Michael Dudok De Wit.
Hooks
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| Noon |
Questions & Answers
Finnegan and Hooks
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