In performance capture roles, it's not a committee of animators that author the role, it's the actor. I think that's a significant thing for people to understand.
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In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally about the beat of a scene that they're working on. They work collaboratively.
My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.
Roles make the actor.
It's a part of most actors to want to be in an animated feature; to extend the legacy of your career.
All actors are looking for that role that's going to define who they are. When it happens, it's a good thing.
As an actor, you're in the hands of producers and directors. It's important to find out who you're working with.
My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance.
Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that process with honesty.
The animators are absolutely extraordinary. It's mind-boggling.
The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.
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