Digital Acting
Blog Entry #5
Recently, my cousin showed me the official trailer for Assasin's Creed: Brotherhood. At first, I thought, "WOW! They got real actors to do this thing!" I soon found out, that what I thought was a live action scene being played out before me, was in fact, an animation! The figures, from afar, moved with convincing human-like grace. It was only during close-ups that the animated reality became apparent to me.
We don't have to look very far to see evidence of animated characters starring side-by-side with human counterparts. In Avatar, the use of "performance capture" is one step towards the fusion of animation and real-life actors. Read the following article, entitled <a href="http://www.digitalacting.com/2010/02/26/do-the-avatar-actors-deserve-recognition/">Do the ‘Avatar’ actors deserve recognition?</a> and respond to the following questions:
1. Is this acting or is this animation?
2. Do you think that animated character should be eligible for acting awards?
3. Do you think that human actors will ever become obsolete? Why or why not?
Recently, my cousin showed me the official trailer for Assasin's Creed: Brotherhood. At first, I thought, "WOW! They got real actors to do this thing!" I soon found out, that what I thought was a live action scene being played out before me, was in fact, an animation! The figures, from afar, moved with convincing human-like grace. It was only during close-ups that the animated reality became apparent to me.
We don't have to look very far to see evidence of animated characters starring side-by-side with human counterparts. In Avatar, the use of "performance capture" is one step towards the fusion of animation and real-life actors. Read the following article, entitled <a href="http://www.digitalacting.com/2010/02/26/do-the-avatar-actors-deserve-recognition/">Do the ‘Avatar’ actors deserve recognition?</a> and respond to the following questions:
1. Is this acting or is this animation?
2. Do you think that animated character should be eligible for acting awards?
3. Do you think that human actors will ever become obsolete? Why or why not?
posted by Largo @ 6:53 AM
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