You Thought I was sleeping...Acting!

You Thought I was Sleeping...Acting!

Today I attended a one-day course, The Acting Lab, at Abertay University. It was an introductory course on acting where we did a handful of activities that focused around confidence and improvisation.

The reason I attended this was that I have read in many well received books on animation that acting is key for bringing a character to life. It isn’t perhaps necessary for an animator to be a fully-fledged actor because they are different careers but a lot of the theory from acting applies to animation.

I was also able to analyse how other people were performing, how they responded in certain situations and how they reacted to unforeseen problems. How body language plays a part in how we think people are feeling.

Summary:

This acting lab has been an insightful experience and has allowed me to see first-hand the art of acting. It has also made me look more into acting theory as well since in most of the books I have looked into to do with character performance for animation use acting theory to base their own knowledge on, particularly Konstantin Stanislavski who is a well-known actor and teacher from the early 20^th century whose theories have been the basis of acting for many decades now.