Animation is an art which contains various forms of art. Students who are in a learning process, have to study all these subjects or form of art like sketching, painting, acting,  learning 3D software and above all they must have good observation skill. They should study or observe their nearby world; how a person is walking, birds are flying or a leave fall from a tree…etc.

PAI College of Visual Effects Design and Art, an animation college, do such activities so that its students can have understanding of various forms of animation and learn to observe. And in this series a workshop has been organized for B.Sc. in Animation, third-year students, from 19th Feb. 2016 to 22nd Feb. 2016, to share the production workflow for animating an action shot, on “Acting Shot Walkthrough” for the students who have covered MAYA Animation Module by Mr Rohan Page, faculty for 3D Animation in the animation college.

Following topics has been covered in the workshop:-

– Importance of planning for animation shot

– Ingredients of a good animation recipe

– Actors Vs Animators

– Workflow of Acting Shot

– Process & Rules of Lip Sync

– Different stages of acting shot

As well as theory, practical activity was also given to the students. They had to work-out on a Dialogue i.e. “I have to go to the….Umm… Wheez Palace “

On the dialogue students have to work on :

Mood of the character,

Pitching of the dialogue,

Short back-story of dialogue,

Students had to act out on given dialogue to create a video reference.

And finally the outcome of the workshop was:

– Students understood the thought process over working on Dialogue shot.

– Students were able to think good about situation, back-story, and mood of a dialogue.

– It was a first time that student had to perform an acting on a given dialogue, hence the performance was average.

– Students have been instructed to work more towards creating a good video reference and submit it to instructor for comparing their first performance & final version of performance.

Students did observation, acting, study of mood of the character, and many more activities which is very essential for an animation course or will be very helpful to make career in animation. Such activities must be organized by the animation college which runs degree courses like, B.Sc. in animation or M.A. in Animation.

And at the last, what students think about the workshop, some of their views:

Abhishek Singh Rajput : I learnt how to express our expressions, this was my best session in my third year.

Tenzin Gelek : I have learnt that acting is important for an animator.

Shaaz Shaikh : It was fun getting involved in the activity conducted by the instructor and helped me to explore the animation field, be it the dialogue, animation or acting for the actual performance of our respective characters to be animated in future.

Nirmala Baghel : I learnt workflow, dialogue, animation. How to animate character according to the given dialogues. How to animate expressions and walk cycle of the object according to the situation.