CFP Acting & Performance in Animation (Animation Studies 2.0 September)
(DEADLINE MONDAY 26th AUGUST)
This month’s theme invites posts which consider the acting and performance in animation from any angle.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
– The fictional star and the cult of personality
– The animator as actor and the agency of the creator
– The animated actor – rotoscope and mo-cap performance
– The ‘celebrity’ voice performance and the rise of the hidden talent.
– Agency and performance theory
– Live animation performance
Posts of between 300 and 500 words, which discuss any aspect of the above topic are welcome. Contributors are encouraged to include clips and images to support their posts. Please also include a short bio to accompany the post. All permissions are the responsibility of the contributor. Please contact the editor blog@animationstudies.org with submissions or questions.
Acting and Performance in Animation
your blogs are always informative and cool i am a Animator and i have learned alot from you keep posting love to read your blogs/
Performance animation is not EVIL, it´s not just a methodology neither a technology. There is one thing for sure, it is based on performance, but from whom ? human ? or non-human ?
Can we consider performance animation when capturing the motion from an animal ? or from someone that doesn’t know that is actually performing ? what is performance ?
The subject that gives life to performing objects should be consider an actor ? animator ? performer ? puppeteer ?
Traditional and digital animators might look to performance animation as the devil’s rotoscope if the purpose of performance animation is to substitute the animation style aesthetics.
But I believe that performance animation implies a more active creative process which results in a more spontaneous motion, in contrast, frame by frame goes into the little details from a space-to-time abstraction where animators can synthesize motion into just one frame.
Performance animation can mix the best of both worlds, animators and actors / puppeteers.
What is animation ? what is puppetry ?
Is it life ? is it magic ? is it motion ?
Maybe it is all about semantics and semiotics, something that begging with a ‘s’ like the string of life.