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The Acting Process
The animators on creature comforts don’t get a script. All they get is a transcript of the dialogue and then they have to make their own decision about how it’s said. They have to take into consideration, emotions, when to have blinks and twitches and all of the characteristics that make the animations resemble real characters. This creates more diverse animations, rather than scripting. This is where live action video tests (lav) come into it.

In order to help the animators a technique known as live action briefing is used. It provides the animators with a video that they can work from which shows there real movements and emotions and how their animated characters should behave. The animators act out their lines so they know how their characters should react.

posted by Martin Crosbie @ 10:55 AM