Wiley Action!: Acting Lessons for CG Animators 978-0-470-22743-5 ユーザーズマニュアル

What Is Acting?

  is defined as the art or practice of representing a character on a stage or 

before cameras and derives from the Latin word agere, meaning “to do.” When someone 
is acting, they are performing an action: thus, something is being done as a character. 
Generally an actor is someone who takes on another character by altering parts of their 
body, voice, or personality in order to share a story with an audience. Ironically, or per-
haps appropriately for this book, an obsolete meaning for the word acting is to animate. 

In regard to CG animation and your work in this book, the definition seems perfect: 

If actors are animating a character, then CG animators are acting as they create. What 
exactly actors do and how they do it has changed over time. What was acceptable and 
what was preferred has varied radically throughout history.

This chapter discusses: 

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