The puppeteer's strings: interdisciplinary dialogues between theater and animation

Understanding its definition, "Acting" in animation does not translate as a trade or discipline, but as an action of interpretation. This lands and gives indications of its use in the field of animation. The handling of live action video references seeks the actor to add physical characteristics to his performance in order to emphasize his bodily attitudes during the performance. The representation in the theatrical reality is shared by both the animator and the actor, however, the concept of staging or staging determined by space and time are completely different. In the theater the performance or interpretation occurs in the present moment when it is captured or executed. An actor's staging takes him from one action to another action, one emotion to another emotion, and his interpretation is unique, avoiding exactly the same reproduction. On the other hand, the animator does not have a present time, even if he uses the reference video as a resource, because the usefulness of the reference is not for the present moment, but for a future, when the image is going to be abstracted.

Authors: Jesus Alejandro Guzman-Ramirez, Sergio Hernan Sierra-Monsalve & José Ángel Cabuya-Velandia.