Handbook

Performative Animation and the Virtual Body will help you to bring your animated characters to life. In this course you will learn how identity is communicated through the animated body and how animators engage with performance as an animation process. Assessment involves the creation and evaluation of a character performance that aims to show 'embodied agency' through animated movement; including body, voice, and facial expressions.

You will explore how animated agency is generated by analysing a combination of performance and acting skills, which can then be applied in your creative work using advanced 3D CGI character animation techniques. In particular, you will focus on developing emotive strategies for your character, based on physiological and psychological devices, included in physical performance processes. You will investigate nuances of physical expression through observation of performances in character animation, undertaking experimental body animation, and participating in live-performances that integrate digital technologies.