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Acting and Animation
Animation has been part of our technology for many years. With all of the new technologies that we develop today, animation has been improving with new sets of styles and techniques. Other than technology, animation also has a connection towards acting. At this present day, there are special schools that teach acting for animation. These special schools include the New York Film Academy, Westwood College and the University of Texas at Dallas Arts and Technology.

Acting/Animations Schools
The following are the list of schools that teach acting for animation students.

New York Film Academy

This is the educational institution, devoted to providing the most focused film making, acting and animation instruction in the world. Students would be behind the camera, performing a scene or creating a 3-D model. For the animators, who are attending in this school, they are able to get into several programs, including understanding the first principles of animation, follow by 2-D and 3-D modeling. Other classes also include one that each animation student must learn about body movements for their characters when creating a movement for their animation, which is considered as acting. Basically, each of the programs that are provided at this college come together as one whole curriculum and each program helps out animation students understand about acting as it can be part of the animation process.

During the process, the New York Film Academy provides two years for attending to the programs, either animation, acting or film making. This college has been recommended by many well known celebrities.

Westwood College

At this college, with a Bachelor's Degree for animation, they are able to provide programs such as creating 2-D and 3-D characters and animation for the Web, digital media, television, movies and software and utilizing the laws of motion and physics to create life-like motion for the animated characters that the students would create.

This college provides three years depending on the degree program.

The University of Texas at Dallas Arts and Technology

At this art college, they would provide programs such as computer animation, experimental animation, cartooning, character animation, performance animation and animation history. Just as the New York Film Academy, it provides a class, which is performing animation, in which animators would learn about the aspects of performing or acting in order to understand the body movements and provide it to an animated character.

Basically, it is a program in which it teaches animation students the basics of body and motion in order to create movements for animated characters. The University of Texas at Dallas Arts and Technology provides three years for the programs and four years when needed.

Overall
Acting has been a prior role in entertainment, such as stage plays, film and television, because of how regular people would come to participate and act as any character and create a magical moment in which the imaginative character comes to life. The reason why acting is a prior role in animation is because acting in animation would apply to any form of character animation. Plus, if the animation might seem excellent, the character would have no personality. If an animator is trying to tell a story through a character, inevitably that animator is an actor.

Animators learn about acting so that they would be able to understand the concepts of realistic physical portrayals of organic human performances into animation and bringing a realistic aspect to fantasy through body movement. The particular kind of classes to take this are basically classes like Principles of Animation, Acting and Movement and Animation History, which is to understand how the first animators were able to specify the techniques that they use to combine movement and animation.

Overall, the time of taking these kinds of courses, depending on which schools to choose from, not just these schools in particular but in general, would take up to four years possibly in order to pass these classes. Out of these schools, it would take up to three years, the highest.