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Acting for Animators - A Complete Guide to Performance Animation by Ed Hooks

Animators need to know a lot about acting, but they don't need to know everything. For example, an animator does not need to learn how to make himself cry because, if he started crying, he wouldn't be able to see to animate! Much of acting theory, as it is taught to actual actors, is devoted to training the actor how to emotionally stimulate himself, a skill that animators simply do not need.

In Acting for Animators, acting teacher Ed Hooks explains seven essential acting principles, focusing on the connections between thinking, emotion and physical movement. He discusses the importance of empathy in acting and tells how to achieve it in animation. This book is chock full of good stuff for the animator and, already, is on a growing number of "must read" lists. Many animation schools are making it a required text.

In addition to the informative text, Acting for Animators includes an entertaining CD-ROM with illustrations of acting principles and narration by Ed Hooks. Utilizing live-action improvisation, actors from Ed's regular acting classes demonstrate what it means to, for example, "play an action until something happens to make you play another action". Also, the eight Efforts of Laban Movement Theory are demonstrated.


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