Acting and Its Double: A Practice-led Investigation of the Nature of Acting Within Performance Capture

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dc.contributor.advisorMarks, Stefan
dc.contributor.advisorJoseph, Frances
dc.contributor.authorKennedy, Jason Allen
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-27T20:52:47Z
dc.date.available2021-01-27T20:52:47Z
dc.date.copyright2021
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.updated2021-01-27T06:00:35Z
dc.description.abstractThis research deepens our understanding, as animators, actors, audiences, and academics, of how we see the practice of acting in performance capture (PeCap). While exploring the intersections between acting and animation, a central question emerges: what does acting become when the product of acting starts as data and finishes as computer-generated images that preserve the source-actor’s “original” performance to varying degrees? This primary question is interrogated through a practice-led inquiry in the form of 3D animation experiments that seek to clarify the following sub-questions: • What is the nature of acting within the contexts of animation and performance capture? • What is the potential for a knowledge of acting to have on the practice of animating, and for a knowledge of animation to have on the practice of acting? • What is the role of the animator in interpreting an actor’s performance data and how does this affect our understanding of the authorship of a given performance? This thesis is interdisciplinary and sits at the intersection between theories of acting, animation, film, and psychology. Additionally, this thesis engages with phenomenology and auto-ethnography to explore acting in performance capture from the perspective of a single individual as the actor, PeCap artist, and animator. This type of first-person experience-based insight is often missing from purely theoretical discussions about acting in performance capture and animation, and helps to provide a clearer understanding of the contributions of each creative role to the final PeCap result. This research provides a strong basis for the necessity of a paradigm revision for how acting is produced within a PeCap context.en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/13943
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.publisherAuckland University of Technology
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.subjectActingen_NZ
dc.subjectAnimationen_NZ
dc.subjectPerformanceen_NZ
dc.subjectMotion captureen_NZ
dc.subjectPerformance captureen_NZ
dc.subjectMoCapen_NZ
dc.subjectPeCapen_NZ
dc.subjectDigital performanceen_NZ
dc.subjectPractice-led researchen_NZ
dc.subjectAuthorshipen_NZ
dc.subjectVactoren_NZ
dc.subjectSynthespianen_NZ
dc.subjectDigital counterparten_NZ
dc.subjectDigital doubleen_NZ
dc.subjectFilm productionen_NZ
dc.subjectActor trainingen_NZ
dc.titleActing and Its Double: A Practice-led Investigation of the Nature of Acting Within Performance Captureen_NZ
dc.typeThesisen_NZ
thesis.degree.grantorAuckland University of Technology
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral Theses
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen_NZ
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