This course will provide a comprehensive introduction to acting, improvisation, and technical basics for animation students. This course puts the student in the role of actor as creator. Acting is foundational to most dramatic live action and animation media creation, as it highlights the creative impact of performance and its capacity for transformation. Through immersion and experience as actors, students will learn language and techniques to improve performance, audition and rehearsal procedures. Improvisation, physical movement, body language, and voice development will be explored in character creation and development. Teaching methods include lectures, demonstrations, class exercises, workshops, scene study and games.