Animated performance : bringing imaginary animal, human and fantasy characters to life

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Foreword by Lynn JohnstonPreface: Driving the Jet PlaneChapter 1: Animation's Basic Movements: The Bouncing Ball and the PendulumOuter Space: Defining and Distorting VolumesInner Space: Defining and Distorting TimeA Brief History of TimeActing: The BeginningThe Line of Action and the ArcChapter 2: Designs That Animate'Look Ma, No Hands!' Animating Snakes, Worms, and Other CrawlersAn Introduction to ThumbnailsGood Actors: Designs That AnimateChapter 3: Setting the Stage: Character and Story ContextDon't Just Do Something...Every Move You Make: Analyzing the CharacterCharacter Volume, Size and MovementChapter 4: Is Sex Necessary? Masculine and Feminine Character ActingThe Ages of Man (And Woman)An Introduction to Dialogue AnimationChapter 5: Animal ActorsFour Legs Good, Two Legs Better? Creating Animal CharactersFlights of Information: Animating Winged CharactersPortraying Animal Qualities in Human CharactersChapter 6: Fantastic Performance!Natural Inspirations for the SupernaturalFloating Worlds: The Weightless ActorChapter 7: The Performer as ObjectMoving the Furniture: Bringing Inanimate Objects to LifeMaterial Girl: Fabric and Cloth CharactersChapter 8: Double Timing: Animating Character InteractionsStaging and Composition Changing Leads in Multiple-Character ScenesJazz Hands: Acting Out Your Scenes without Using Your BodyPotemkin Villages: Crowd Scenes and How to Fake ThemChapter 9: Character Development Over TimeCharacter and Story ArcsInspiration and ReferenceIndexAcknowledgements