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Spring 2025: 3D Animation Program / Character Performance
TERM DATES: Mar 30, 2025 - Jun 14, 2025
LEVEL: Intermediate 
COURSE PREREQUISITES: Body Acting
2. Character Performance
$1620
In Character Performance, students explore how to make a character seem alive and how to craft a believable dialogue performance. Now that the students are familiar with body mechanics and pantomime body acting, they are ready to tackle the challenge of full dialogue acting. Students learn clarity of acting choices, and how to make a believable performance.



Students animate a scene using an audio clip that has been approved by their instructor using acting choices, strong storytelling poses, motivated action, and convincing body movement. Applying the direction from the instructor, students learn how to breathe life into 3D characters. Students learn the importance of acting and reaction, choreography, and controlling the audience's attention.
1 - Choosing audio clip.
2 - Planning your shot.
3-6 - Blocking your shot.
7-10 - Spline and polish the shot.
11 - Finalizing and submitting assignments
critique time *
class time
instructor
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Monday 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Monday 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Friday 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Tuesday 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Thursday 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Thursday 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Wednesday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
ABOUT INSTRUCTORS
Manuel Bover
Spain
Manuel is originally from Barcelona, Spain. After animating on the award-winning short film Alma, he came to the U.S. seven years ago to pursue his dream of working as an animator at the best studios. He has worked at Rhythm & Hues, Animal Logic, and Sony Imageworks on m...
Morgan Greene
United States
Hi! I am a former Pixar, Disney and Dreamworks animator with film credits such as Tangled, Wish, Spiderverse II, Croods and Sea Beast. Currently I'm working on an upcoming movie about David from the bible. I have had the amazing privilege of working with the legends Glen ...
Aleksandar Kolev
Canada
Aleksandar is a Bulgarian animator with over 10 years of experience working in different areas of the entertainment industry such as Feature, TV, VFX, Adverts and Games Cinematics. He has animated on award winning projects like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Mitchells vs...
Aldric Lopez
Canada
Aldric is currently an Animation Director at ICON creative studios. He previously worked at Animal Logic Vancouver, Sony Pictures Imageworks and MPC as an animator after graduating from Animschool. He is experienced in a wide range of animation styles ranging from ultra rea...
Juan Carlos Navarro Gómez
Mexico
Juan Carlos currently holds the role of Lead Animator at Cinesite, where he is also leading the charge on the upcoming Smurfs Musical feature film. Prior to this, he also led the animation team for TMNT Mutant Mayhem. With a strong presence in the film, TV, and gaming indust...
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