SF3 · Acting Sequence

Acting, acting, acting

This third course is destined to animators “middle” that feel like reaching the next level. It often deals with animators that make some series tv from some and they don’t have yet or they don’t have the eye anymore for the details that make of a mediocre animation an animation high-end.

Since there’s a lot to say, this masterclass is 4 weeks long, but the theory takes only the mornings, while during the afternoon we’ll work on a common project, based on a S’F bouquet scenario (check out our Projects)

• Acting for Animators
• Mime, pantomime, body acting
• Facial Action Coding System (Paul Ekman) : how apply it to animation
• Character psychology development: (Howard M Gluss and Scott Edward Smith)
• Advanced Framing Composition
• John Truby, Christopher Vogler, Robert McKee: three approaches to western storytelling
• Macro-timing: Layout an acting shot
• Micro-timing: blink, expression changes, lipsync
• An acting sequence as a text: rhetorical figures and cinematography

Depending on their availability and the scenario the masterclass is based on, some “special guests” could join the class, as supervisor/teacher or to give their own specifical masterclass (gesture drawing, acting for animation, mime and pantomime, cinematography, storytelling, etc.)

4 weeks of masterclass

(160 HOURS > 20 DAYS)

Description	Hours	%
Workshop	58,5	73.1
Theory	8,5	10.6
Exercises	13	16.3

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