Course Overview
Acting and Stating are absolute essentials for making the characters and story to come alive. • Introduction to stagecraft for theatre, live action film and animation • Understanding characters and their back stories • Interpreting the importance of the scene through action & staging • Acting workshop • Using editing and understanding film language to enhance character development and storytelling.
| Total Credits | 2.0 |
| Type | Theory |
| Lecture | 1.0 |
| Half Semester | N |
| Text Reference | 302225 Hooks, Ed, Acting for Animators, einemann Drama; Revised edition (September 2, 2003)302225 Sito, Tom. Whitaker, Harold & Halas, John, Timing for Animation, Taylor & Francis, 2013.302225 Webster, Chris and Hayes, Derek, Acting and Performance for Animation, CRC Press, 2013. |
About Instructor(s)
Prof. Sumant Muralidhar Rao
Prof. Sumant Muralidhar Rao is an engineer, designer and an animato and has 13 years experience in the field of animation, and special effects filmmaking. He has been a consultant to Discreet, (a Canadian based company, that makes leading animation, editing and compositing software) and Tata Elxsi India Limited. He was the Director and one of the founding members of Animagic, a company with a sterling reputation for the quality of it’s work, be it traditional animation, computer graphics, special effects or illustration and design for print and the internet.
