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Lip synch, Accents, Mime acting, in many practical assignments.
Total contact hours: 56
Private study hours: 94
Total study hours: 150
Only available to students on programmes owned by The School of Engineering and Digital Arts
Total contact hours: 56
Private study hours: 94
Total study hours: 150
• Stop Staring: Facial Modelling and Animation Done Right by Jason Osipa Publisher: Sybex Inc; Bk&CD-Rom edition (August 1, 2003) ISBN: 0782141293
• Acting for the Camera: Revised Edition by Tony Barr Publisher: Perennial Currents; Revised edition (June 18, 1997) ISBN: 0060928190
• The Empty Space: A Book about the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate by Peter Brook Publisher: Touchstone; Reprint edition (December 1, 1995) ISBN: 0684829576
• Animating the Looney Tunes Way by Tony Cervone Publisher: Walter Foster Pub (April 1, 2000) ISBN: 1560103035
Background Reading:
• Directing Actors: Creating Memorable Performances for Film & Television by Judith Weston Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions (July 1999) ISBN: 0941188248
• Audition by Michael Shurtleff Publisher: Bantam; Reissue edition (January 2, 1980) ISBN: 0553272950
• The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal by Desmond Morris Publisher: Delta (April 13, 1999) ISBN: 0385334303
• Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen, Haskel Frankel Publisher: Wiley (September 1, 1973) ISBN: 0025473905
• Building a Character by Constantine Stanislavski, Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood Publisher: Theatre Arts Books; Reprint edition (June 1, 1989) ISBN: 0878309829
• Acting: The First Six Lessons. (Theatre Arts Book) by R. Boleslavsky, Richard Boleslavski Publisher: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Books; 1st edition (January 1, 1970) ISBN: 0878300007
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
1. Understand how thoughts and emotions are clearly and convincingly conveyed using 3D character models.
2. Be able to create performances and believable interactions between animated characters.
3. Be able to animate dialogue scenes.
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