Machine generated contents note: A 534-word history of acting -- Animator versus stage actor -- vive la difference! -- Before we start, a few useful definitions -- Acting: nine basic principles -- Thinking tends to lead to conclusions, and emotion tends to lead to action -- We empathize only with emotion -- Empathy versus sympathy -- Theatrical reality is not the same thing as regular reality -- Your character should play an action in pursuit of an objective while overcoming an obstacle -- A few words about super objectives -- Acting is doing. Acting is also reacting -- Play an action until something happens to make you play a different action -- Scenes begin in the middle, not at the beginning -- A scene is a negotiation -- Relationships are the way characters feel about each other -- Insights, perspectives and suggestions -- Why story matters -- Animating dialogue -- Power centers -- Status transactions -- The psychological gesture and use of atmosphere

Note continued: The adrenaline moment -- "Ma" -- Animating force versus form -- Laban Movement Analysis -- How to study Laban Movement Analysis -- Heroes, villains and your intended audience -- Our sense of sight is more powerful than... -- Acting is a process of exposing, not hiding -- Active listening -- Video references and mirrors -- Character analysis -- a template -- Pantomime -- The expression of emotion in the human face -- The willing suspension of disbelief -- Comedy -- Farce -- a particular kind of comedy -- Caricature -- Virtual reality -- Video games -- Empathy -- Acting in video games -- Eyes -- Blinking -- Empathy -- Humor -- Performance capture -- Credibility -- Dialogue -- Male/female relationships -- Can a video game make a player cry? -- Short animation guidelines -- Introduction to film analysis -- Acting analyses -- Aladdin (1992) -- Boy and the World (2014) -- Anomalisa (2015) -- The Jungle Book (2016) -- Zootopia (2016)

Note continued: The little Prince (2016) -- Addendum: Walt Disney's 1935 memo to Don Graham.