ABSTRACT

Felix Goennert (born in 1975 in Luneburg, Germany) is a professor at the Film University in Potsdam-Babelsberg, where he has studied too. He was the lead character animator for the CGI-animated feature Lissi und der Wilde Kaiser (Lissi and the Wild Emperor, 2007). He won more than 30 awards for his 3D-animated short films. Characters are like real human beings, they have a life of their own. Of course one can think a lot theoretically and sometimes one has to find out why an animation doesn't work correctly. Basically, however, to me during the process of animation there is no such thing as theory, more internalized insights from previous research. Stanislavsky's definition of authenticity in my opinion applies the same to the play with a character in animation. As animators are not on the stage themselves this is a slightly different process. It doesn't happen in real time as is the case in film and theatre.