Archive notice: This FMX Highlights livestream aired in May 2020. The event has ended, and programme links may have moved.
Actor and acting teacher Ed Hooks joined the FMX 1994-2020 Highlights series for a session built around his Acting for Animators workshop.
Animate the thought
Hooks focused on performance as an expression of thought, explaining why acting theory matters to animators rather than treating movement as a purely mechanical exercise.
History and story
The discussion revisited Walt Disney’s approach through Snow White and considered what animators could learn from performance choices in other films.
Animation teams should test the ideas through blocking, review and character-specific performance goals before applying them to production shots.
