ABSTRACT
Performance in animation cannot be considered separately from story because story is what justifies the existence of the characters in the first place. Without story, there is no performance. Up until this point in Acting for Animators, we have been studying acting theory in a sort of theatrical petri dish, as if acting as an art and craft exists independent of any other considerations. We have been examining how a character sequence will work best when certain principles of acting theory are applied, and what happens when they are not. We have looked carefully at all of the acting theory that animator as an animator should ever need. If animator is on a traditional career path, he/she may already have found employment at a feature animation studio or game company. Animator get to make a living from animation but, on the other, story and artistic purity are sometimes pushed aside in favor of merchandising and production schedules.
