nail down the root first

http://splinedoctors.com/2008/06/get-down-to-the-root-of-things/

11 second club helpful hints-Acting It Out

11 second club helpful hints-Acting It Out

Acting Reference

http://kylekenworthy.blogspot.com/search/label/Acting%20Reference

Film Reference for Animators

http://www.filmref.blogspot.com/

Some Thoughts On Acting Part 2

Some Thoughts On Acting Part 2 (capturing honesty)

However, I find this method, even when done well, can lead to the result feeling unnaturally acted, rather than something more honest. Much better, I think to ignore what your body is doing, try and feel what the character is feeling, concentrate on the subtext, and see what happens.

Working on Guardians of Ga'Hoole I'm using this approach a lot, and my lead, James Cunliffe is showing me further techniques, like shooting with the dialogue slowed down or doing a couple of passes, the first one this, sub-conscious, 'honesty' pass then, shooting more reference this time concentrating on the physicality of the performance. Then you can use both to make a very strong piece of animation ... but more about this another time.

Subtext more

Dapoon's Subtext Question

Or if she'd already had a call from the headmaster to tell her that the boy has misbehaved this could form the subtext of the delivery, it could be a rhetorical "How was your day at school?" = "I know what you've done at school"

Some Thoughts on Acting Part1

Some Thoughts on Acting Part 1 (subtext)

Well this is a very important, we should ALWAYS strive to seek and animate the subtext, and the subtext should ALWAYS be different to the text. This is so important that for non dialogue shots, Randy Cook would record the unspoken dialogue (subtext) of a shot for his animators to animate to in their scenes.
Here's an hypothetical scene - A girl appears from a fitting room and shows a new dress she's wearing to her boyfriend, she asks his opinion, he says "yeah, it's great".
If we have his body language mimicking that thought, (it's great) the animation could be fantastic, but the idea isn't very interesting. It's what we call on-the-nose acting, and is just that, acting the words without any deeper thought as to their meaning or what the character is thinking. If the boyfriend says "yeah, it's great", yet his body language says "I'm bored, can we go home now?" we'll have gotten inside the character and given him some depth and therefore created something much more interesting and entertaining.

Acting for animators

Acting for animators

ONE: INTENTIONNothing happens without a reason, everything that the character does is motivated by a larger desire, goal, aim or what I call a WANT. The WANT is usually expressed as attempting to get action from another or others. In other words, the character wants the other character to do something as the result of their desire. In Finding Nemo, Marlon wants Dory to ‘remember the address from the scuba mask’, everything he does in that scene reflects his desire for that address, but everything he does pushes Coral towards ‘remembering the address’. The character ALWAYS must have something to do, in every scene, and this is powered by a desire.

TWO: ALL CHARACTERS ARE HUMAN IN NATUREWhether your character is a lost clown fish, a young outcast lion, a robot built to look like a boy or a singing tea cup, every character is basically human and every story is a human one, about human concerns, and human desires in human relationships. Finding Nemo is the story of an overly protective single father struggling to bring up a disabled child, who just wants to have some independence. The basic conflict between Marlon’s desire to protect his son and Nemo’s desire to have independence is what causes the action of the film.

THREE: CHARACTER IS ACTIONDespite what some Method actors think, a character isn’t a real person, doesn’t have a soul or a personality. Instead, they are a bundle of characteristics, they are as Aristotle called them ‘habitual action’. A character is not given the characteristic ‘kind’ because they were kind ONCE, but because they are habitually KIND. What your characters do regularly is who they are. A character is a cluster of behaviour that the audience read as a persona. Your job is to show those behaviours – in direct response to their INTENTION.

FOUR: ACTING BASICSFor me, there are only two things that are really going on in any actor’s performance, and an animated character should be no different. Each character should have a strong TASK, something achievable that they can fight for in the scene. This changes if their INTENTION changes, but basically means that the animator can keep this TASK in mind when they are developing the character’s actions in every scene. The second part is the moment. Now as animators, there is no immediately live moment, the moment is constructed, but you should nonetheless have your characters balance their actions between TASK and MOMENT. What is happening in this individual moment and how does the character respond to this through the lens of their TASK. In other words, your character must respond to what is happening before them, but taking into account what they need to achieve in the scene.

FIVE: REACTIONEverything is an action-reaction-action-reaction chain. (arguably an action-reaction-reaction-reaction-reaction chain). Characters don’t react on their lines, they react at the point in the behaviour of the other that causes the response. Of course, they can’t speak until they get the chance, but this often builds the tension between the characters, positive or negative. So when one character is telling the other something, the responses can occur long before your character gets to speak.

Acting Reference

http://vimeo.com/groups/actingref/videos

Reference Reference

http://www.referencereference.com/index.html

Really great wevbsite for reference of animation

Frame by Frame

http://framexframe.tumblr.com/

Awesome collection of animation, really good stuff to go over!!

Brendan Body's Blog: Tutorials

Brendan Body's Blog: Tutorials

Mama Odie Test Scene

Mama Odie Test Scene

I'm going to study timing with this clips! :D Awesome!

and, another link to the art of glen keane blog Ariel scene PDF

Living Lines Library

Living Lines Library

Id been looking for this site...finally...I really need to clean my bookmarks

Bloglovin

Bloglovin

check this later...

The 11 Second Club Blog

The 11 Second Club Blog

I didn't know the 11 second club has blog!! I love checking the discussion area...by the way, I thought I still had time for submission for July competition BUT the due seems to be decided by NY official time (something like that) and then found out I ALREADY MISSED!! AHHH...I don't care anyway...cuz I wasn't really in confident to win this time :D

Michael Sporn Animation - Splog

Michael Sporn Animation - Splog

I found a lot of good stuff to go over here....they even covered "I wanna be like you" scene from Jungle Book, King Louie

Bookmark

http://gorillaanimatorsresourcespage.blogspot.com/

I will check this website later, i havent checked this for a while

Bookmark

http://whiskeypail-test.blogspot.com/2011/05/five-frames.html

Animated Antics: 52 Acting Notes for Animators from Ed Hooks

Animated Antics: 52 Acting Notes for Animators from Ed Hooks

そういや、今日ショーンからブログ作れと言われた。一応やってるんだけど、ブログやれin Englsihってことですかい？絶対そうだーわーわー。英語やだーらだー。でも英語でやることになるんだろうなー。まいっか。