Diectic Feet: performance as the index of animation

Authors

  • Hans Vermy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4000/mimesis.357

Keywords:

motioncapture, animation, theatricality, indexicality, optical, unconscious

Abstract

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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Author Biography

Hans Vermy

Fifth year PhD candidate in the program of Theater and Performance Studies at Brown University and is set to defend his dissertation The Live and the Life-Like: Theater, Performance, Animation in the Spring of 2014. He has been honored with awards in film editing and playwrighting and locates his work between celluloid and stage and the cut and the page. An article on a history of animate and theatrical light is forthcoming (March 2014) in the journal «InVisible Culture».

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Published

2024-02-01

How to Cite

Vermy, H. (2024). Diectic Feet: performance as the index of animation. Mimesis Journal, 2(2), 57–77. https://doi.org/10.4000/mimesis.357

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Section

Attori del XXI secolo - Le nuove mimesi