Acting workshop with Philip Watt

This weekend we’re taking acting classes with Philip Watt. This is very exciting. Acting is what we eventually want our CG rigs to do. In order to achieve that it’s important to be able to imagine being your character, to feel what he feels, to act him out in front of your peers.

Some trivia: Philip’s been in the music video for Michael Jackson’s Stranger in Moscow as well as Steven Spielberg’s A.I. His main arena however seems to be the theatre. And teaching. He’s been giving this Acting for Animators workshop here in Viborg for the last five years.

During the week we’re supposed to create a 2-7 minute scene we will perform on Friday. On stage. For an audience…

I came up with Angry Man. He’s a tourist at a crowded beach at some holiday resort. In his forties something. Beer belly. He’s got a temper and easily becomes irritated with the people around him. Eventually he will explode in anger when being hit by a beach ball.

Today’s exercise was to act in front of the class who sketched the characters we were trying to convey. I found my classmates’ drawings of my character hilarious. I can definately use these to develop him further.

Here’s some of the interpretations of Angry Man. There were no signatures, so I don’t know who drew some of these. Sorry guys! Inform me and I will update this post, or you can slap my beer belly.