“Powerful Pantomime” Lecture Series

10 Full Length Lecture/Demo Videos in the Bundle!

This video bundle contains all of the video lecture/demo material originally included in the “SplatFrog Workshops” inaugural course, “Powerful Pantomime”. Even though the live workshop is no more, the lectures still live on!

In these videos I discuss all of the concepts behind my approach to simple and strong pantomime performance in an animated character, as well as ample live demo footage of an animated shot start to finish.

Video Topics Breakdown:

01 – “Intro to ‘Attitudes, Beats & Textures'”: A detailed introduction (or a refresher course) to the “Attitudes, Beats & Textures” workflow that we will be immersing ourselves in for the course of the lecture series. (24:22)

02 – “The Power of Pantomime”: Dive deep in to the art and analysis of pantomime acting. We will explore simple body mechanics as a language, simple muscle tension combinations within them, and how to combine it all together in readable “recipes”. (17:22)

03 – “Animating The Mask”: Learn how to not just animate the face “rig”, but how to animate anatomy of the face and the small set of simple muscle combinations that create common readable expressions. (50:38)

04 – “Phrasing”: How rhythm in your character’s movement describes energy, emotion, and drives entertainment. (25:27)

05 – “Body Gesture”: In this lecture/demo I emphasize and explore how the body (core, torso and head) is the primary tool we use to communicate our ideas and intent to world around us. (24:03)

06 – “Animate from the Core”: All physical qualities and emotional states originate from one central place – The Core! (20:01)

07 – “In Control & Out of Control”: One question will help you analyze and caricature your performances with more precision and clarity, moment to moment – “Is my character in control, or out of control?” (50:03)

08 – “Cartoon Your Character”: How poses, movement and ideas themselves can be pushed in to the realm of cartoon. (31:51)

09 – “Sparkle & Polish”: Conquer all the details of the elusive “polish” pass, and learn to make your characters “sparkle” with extra life. (44:18)

10 – “The Theory of Everything”: In this final lecture, we wrap it all up and drive home the one principle that rules them all – Gravity. (22:34)

*all videos available “a la carte” in the store as well.

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