Acting for Animators, Revised Edition: A Complete Guide to Performance Animation

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 144 pages
• Published by: Heinemann Drama
• Edition: Revised Edition September 2, 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 032500580X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0325005805
• Book Dimensions: 8.3 x 7.5 x 0.4 inches
• Weighs: 9.9 ounces

Product Review
Ed Hooks is Stanislavsky for animators, but fun! I advise all my animation students to read Ed's amazingly insightful book.Dave Quesnelle, Professor of Animation, Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

Ed Hooks' Acting for Animators was the first book on the subject and is still the best. His analysis of character motivation and expressing emotion is the difference between animating and just moving furniture.Gene Hamm, Animation instructor, Academy of Art College, San Francisco

Character animators, using pencils and/or pixels, will discover a wealth of information about how to make their characters express empathetic emotions in the revised edition ofJohn Canemaker, Animator/Director of Animation, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

If I can't figure out what is wrong with one of my characters, I can pick up Ed's book, scan for just a short while, and come back with my direction. It's the I Ching for animators.#91;this book

Wonderful teaching! Ed Hooks is fascinated and fascinating.#93;. . . . Highly recommended.

Product Description

Ed Hooks is Stanislavsky for animators, but fun! I advise all my animation students to read Ed's amazingly insightful book.
- Dave Quesnelle, Professor of Animation, Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

Ed Hooks' Acting for Animators was the first book on the subject and is still the best. His analysis of character motivation and expressing emotion is the difference between animating and just moving furniture.
- Gene Hamm, Animation instructor, Academy of Art College, San Francisco

Character animators, using pencils and/or pixels, will discover a wealth of information about how to make their characters express empathetic emotions in the revised edition of this book. . . . Highly recommended.
- John Canemaker, Animator/Director of Animation, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

If I can't figure out what is wrong with one of my characters, I can pick up Ed's book, scan for just a short while, and come back with my direction. It's the I Ching for animators.
- Matt Brunner, Director, Xbox

Wonderful teaching! Ed Hooks is fascinated and fascinating.
- Michael Dudok de Wit, Winner, Academy Award, Short Animation, Father and Daughter

Animators need to know a lot about acting, but they dont need to know everything. Acting for Animators sorts out the acting theory that animators need, presenting it in a form and with references that are more relevant to the animators world. It explores the connections between thinking and physical action, between thinking and emotion; it provides the steps for an effective character analysis and the dynamics of a scene. Using references to animation and live action, acting principles are highlighted and explained. Plus, the accompanying CD-ROM provides explicit examples, including videoclips of improvs based on the seven essentials of acting and highlights of Rudolph Labans movement theory.

This revised edition is illustrated by Paul Naas, an animator and director whose work includes film, TV, video games, location-based entertainment, and Internet animation. He was one of the first animator/instructors hired by the Disney Institute.

Reader Reviews
Mr. Hooks has succeeded in condensing years of experience teaching his internationally recognized Master Class "Acting for Animators" into a manageably sized and reasonably priced book & CD combination. This is an expanded 2nd Edition of a title first published in 2000 and now in use around the world, as a source manual and text book, by industry leading professional animators as well as animation students in the most highly regarded animation schools. Traditional 2D, contemporary 3D, and experimental animators devoted to "telling a story" with their characters will relish the wealth of straightforward insight presented on topics critical to character design and animations development such as movement and body language, power centers, using psychological gestures, scene development, knowing the audience, and much more. Dispersed throughout "Acting for Animators"- entertainingly illustrating the principals discussed in each chapter- are delightful little line drawn characters from the pen of renowned animator and director Paul Naas. And, not only does this unique and timely book contain a remarkable "Acting Analysis" of the groundbreaking and sure to be classic feature length animation "Iron Giant," it opens with a glowing forward by the film's Director, Brad Bird. Ed Hooks is the original and still leading "Acting for Animators" teacher called upon by animation studios and schools in the United States and overseas. The contents of this book parallel his teaching perfectly. Speaking as an animator in training and a Producer in action- who has had the good fortune to participate in Ed Hooks' recent Master Class in Denver after first meeting him as an acting student in California at the beginning of his now twenty year career as a highly regarded stage, tv & film acting coach- I say this is a "must have" for any animator who wants their work to stand out from the pack and grab the audience by the funny bone and/or the heart! Consult "Acting for Animators" right along with Richard Williams' "The Animator's Survival Kit" and your animations will rock! Anne-Elizabeth Denver, Colorado inside@centralvectors.com Comment | | (Report this)