Animating On Stage JefAwada From the beginning, animation has borrowed heavily from vaudeville and clown. Everyone from Steamboat Willie to Luxo Jr. echo the physical theater's traditions. In fact, the elements that make for great vaudeville and physical theater are the same elements that make for great animation: clarity, timing, pace, status and narrative. The clown and the a n i m a t o r share the same problems and triumphs. Having grown up in the physical theater, my teachers have been clowns and fools and m o v e m e n t specialists. In general t h e i r approach has been to find character and narrative from the physical, or more simply, from motion. So, when the Florida Studio Theater in Sarasota, FL, asked me to teach an acting class to the c o m p u t e r animation juniors at the Ringling School of A r t and Design, my wheels, as they say, started to turn, It occurred to me that, as animators, they are intensely keyed into motion, so the approach of the physical theater might be a perfect bridge. What we found, the students and I, was
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Animating on stage
Awada, Jef
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, Volume 35 (2)
Association for Computing Machinery – May 1, 2001
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