To achieve a good lip-sync many times we obsess over making the mouth shapes match the audio sounds, as if it were the most important part to achieve believability. Notice Jim Henson's mastery in handling Kermit the Frog. There are no shapes, only a mouth opening and closing, pero su actuación resulta ...

A good animator has to manage to create the impression that their character thinks, because the camera has the capacity of constantly reading the thoughts of the character. If our character stops thinking for a moment, they will look as if they were daydreaming and the audience will perceive it immediately. At that point, the spectator will disconnect and the illusion of the movies will vanish… Why? ...

Surely everyone of us has at some point tried adding something original to our character, details that would make him/her stand out from the rest and achieve an animation that would stick out. We start thinking and thinking and after long and fruitless hours our mind is still in a blank state, with no ideas and nothing new to provide. Creo que el error está en buscar esa ...

In daily life people have a habit of not always saying what they mean. Sometimes they realize that it’s not polite saying what they really think, por eso encubrimos la verdad con otras palabras y dejamos a la suspicacia del interlocutor que consiga entender el significado real de lo que se ve en la ...

We humans are social beings by nature and therefore feel the need to communicate with others. We express ourselves through words, facial expressions and body movement. Within this context there are aspects we control more easily, for instance, what we express through words. But there is another much more involuntary part and ...

Do you inquire as James Gandolfini achieve those memorable actings in The Sopranos? Take a look at the book of his acting mentor: Harold Guskin. Finding a good acting book is tricky. The title and front cover made me skeptical, but this book thoroughly surprised me. Is one of the best book on acting I've ever read. Harold Guskin is ...

The task of the coordinator is to show the public how the character feels. As animators, is essential to have good knowledge of how the mind works and human behavior. Lying is probably one of the most common behaviors that we find in a movie and as animators, need to know how to be the performance of the character to display a liar ...

Credible characters always leave an indelible mark on the public. Are accepted and welcomed by the audience. The litmus test for a character believable is your reaction and how it occurs. To successfully transmit pain of a character, either emotional or physical, we must first understand the following concepts. TIMING ...