Lights, camera, action! This course is where you begin animating a breathing, thinking and living character. By adding dialogue and basic facial animation, this introduces you to animation shots that you can start to add to your demo reel.

In Introduction to Acting, you tackle two of the most challenging aspects of character animation: pantomime acting and animating dialogue. Through pantomime acting, you’ll learn to show the audience the character’s emotion without narration or dialogue. Advance to the most exciting concept in character animation: dialogue acting. In this course, you’ll learn how to use subtlety and subtext to add complexity and depth to your characters.