Tonights acting class at bang. was about status. Who really controls the scene, who is directing where the scene goes, and how do the characters relate to each other? Does this change through the scene and how does your character deal with that change. I’ve realized that I’ve tended, during this class, to be kind […]
Advanced Acting–Week 07
There is this middle stage of animation where things get a little murky and you really need to watch what you are doing. This usually happens after you switch out of stepped keys. You kind of let go of the control and say ‘ok, let’s see what you got’.I find that with animation, […]
The best way to learn something is to attack the problem in small manageable bites and then add on a skill as you master the first. These build and build as you get better at each thing. This is how I try to set my teaching classes. Improv acting is no different and its great […]
Advanced Acting–Week 06
Animation on the computer is really like pushing little clay characters around, watching them float around and then push and push until hopefully there is some type of refinement and you get closer to what you imagined.
The first key– what you imagined. Without having a super clear vision of the action or acting […]
I had to learn some knitting this week. yes–knitting. For this latest animation I thought it would be neat to have my character knitting. Not reading a book, or petting a cat–no that wouldn’t work. She has to be knitting. The First step is find out how the hands work in knitting a professional way. […]
Advanced Acting–Week 05
So this week I was blocking in my multi-character animation. This stage you really start to dig into the character and who they are and really visualize the scene. This is really the part that I think I took for granted before. This stage is where everything comes into focus. Everything need to […]
So my third improvisational acting class at bang. studios was about emotion and how to use emotion to lead a scene. We were given an emotion and then had to continue through the scene using that emotion. Then we were told to hold the scene and then we both were given a new emotion, and […]
Advanced Acting–Week 04
This week we are setting up a layout for our next animation project.Requirements are to include two character and at leat one cut.
The placement of the camera is so so important to defining a shot. Using composition and design you are not only telling the audience where to look, but also how to […]
Animation Mentor –Class Four Week 03Well, the first weeks of Class Four at AnimationMentor.com have been about face expressions. We were given an add-on to our rig, so that more expressive emotions can be added into the face. The head rig has almost as many controls as the body itself, and includes individual pull controls […]
