Diectic Feet: performance as the index of animation

The article investigates recent promotional campaigns launched by Hollywood to generate a sense of believability, identification, and connection between audiences and digitally animated characters, exploring why and how theatricality is summoned to lend respectability to the cartoon. The concept, te...

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Main Author:	Hans Vermy
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Accademia University Press 2013-12-01
Series:	Mimesis Journal
Subjects:	motioncapture animation theatricality indexicality optical unconscious
Online Access:	http://journals.openedition.org/mimesis/357

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description	The article investigates recent promotional campaigns launched by Hollywood to generate a sense of believability, identification, and connection between audiences and digitally animated characters, exploring why and how theatricality is summoned to lend respectability to the cartoon. The concept, technology, and branding of motion-capture is interrogated through aesthetic and theoretical instances of the step and walking, footprints and strides, and entrances and exits to reveal a theatrical historiography both rooted and reborn in a digital animation practice.
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Diectic Feet: performance as the index of animation

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