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How to Stop Acting – Harold Guskin

Do you inquire as James Gandolfini achieve those memorable actings in The Sopranos? Take a look at the book of his acting mentor: Harold Guskin. Finding a good acting book is tricky. The title and front cover made me skeptical, but this book thoroughly surprised me. Is one of the best book on acting I've ever read. Harold Guskin is ...

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The key to achieving a good sense of weight

When we have to go about a scene in which a character has to lift something heavy, we usually tend to address it in a purely physical fashion. We try to figure how much the object weighs and consider how much physical effort should the character put into lifting or moving it. But to achieve credibility in acting ago ...

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Using Vimeo properly with your demo reel

I recently had to revise many applications to form the feature film animation team Capture the Flag and called my attention misuse many artists platforms Vimeo and Youtube. Most artists use these platforms to upload their demoreels because they are free and play the video at a rate ...

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Acting and body language: Lying

The task of the coordinator is to show the public how the character feels. As animators, is essential to have good knowledge of how the mind works and human behavior. Lying is probably one of the most common behaviors that we find in a movie and as animators, need to know how to be the performance of the character to display a liar ...

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The key to professional success

Throughout my career I have seen very talented artists end up failing and even leaving the profession by the lack of an essential quality in work and in life: RESILIENCE. In our profession we are subjected to very difficult tests, as constantly changing city, Company, work style, of ...

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Three keys to pain your character believable

Credible characters always leave an indelible mark on the public. Are accepted and welcomed by the audience. The litmus test for a character believable is your reaction and how it occurs. To successfully transmit pain of a character, either emotional or physical, we must first understand the following concepts. TIMING ...

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As confront a freelance job

In most cases in the form of start profession freelance usually work with. Small orders that reach us through some known or advertisement on the web. One of the issues that generate more questions in our early is how much money would be right to ask for a particular job. There is always the fear spend ...

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The best tool acting: Status

Social animals have rules that prevent killing each other for food, partner or a place to live. They face each other and often fight to establish a hierarchy, after which they never again struggle unless any attempt to change the pecking. Status is the relative position ...

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