ABSTRACT
This chapter provides few basic principles that are absolute and non-negotiable if the actor's goal is to create empathetic performance animation. The late Shamus Culhane correctly pointed out in his wonderful book, Animation from Script to Screen, that Disney-style realism is harder to accomplish than more restrictive, stylized cartoons. Picasso's earliest paintings were very realistic. Emotions happen spontaneously and, when they do, they tend to lead to physical action. The folks at Pixar tried to explain what emotions are with the movie Inside Out, but they really only succeeded in illustrating that emotions have a powerful effect on adolescent development. In one of the film's first scenes, the emotion Joy appears spontaneously in the baby's head. An infant is incapable of feeling the emotion sadness because she yet lacks the necessary values. Humans have many thousands of feelings, but there are only a small handful of core emotions.
