Many Animation Studios and Video Game Companies Internationa
April 2019 - Present
All day, 10am-5pm, Acting for Animators masterclass: Essential Principles of Acting Theory, Mechanisms of Empathy, Connections between Thinking, Emotion and Physical Action, Comedy vs. Drama, Heroes and Villains, Variables involving acting in video games, Power Centers, Status Negotiations, Eye Contact, Blinking, Characterization etc etc
Acting for Animators
Most Major Studios
March 2014 - Present
Los Angeles
Acting training specifically designed for animators instead of stage or movie actors.
AFA Masterclass
Many Animation Studios and Video Game Companies Internationa
April 2000 - Present
All day, 10am-5pm, Acting for Animators masterclass: Essential Principles of Acting Theory, Mechanisms of Empathy, Connections between Thinking, Emotion and Physical Action, Comedy vs. Drama, Heroes and Villains, Variables involving acting in video games, Power Centers, Status Negotiations, Eye Contact, Blinking, Characterization etc etc
Ed Hooks' Acting for Animators
Self-employed
1996 - Present
Teach professional-level acting theory to animators specifically.
Walt Disney Studios (Los Angeles, Sydney Australia, Orlando Florida)
Rainmaker Studios -Vancouver, Canada
Sheridan Institute – Toronto, Canada
DeTao Masters Academy – Beijing, China
Communication University of China
Makuta VFX, Hyderabad, India
Centre National D’Animation Et De Design (Montreal)
Animex Teesside, UK (11 consecutive years)
SIGGRAPH
GDC 2013 (San Francisco)
Swansea Animation Days
Swansea Institute, Swansea, S. Wales (7 consecutive years)
Catholic University (Oporto, Portugal)
Griffith Film School, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, Australia
College of Creative Studies (Detroit, Michigan)
Cadritech Computacao (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
CGCG (Taipei Taiwan)
Vancouver Film School (Vancouver, Canada)
Emily Carr Institute (Vancouver, Canada)
The Animation Institute at Filmakademie Baden Wurtemburg (Ludwigsburg, Germany)
Full Sail (Winter Park, Florida)
FMX Animation Festival (Stuttgart, Germany) - Program Board
Ohio State University
Ringling School of Animation (Florida)
Bournemouth University (England)
Loyola Marymount (LA, California)
Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne, Australia)
Animal Logic (Sydney, Australia)
BioWare Corp. (Edmonton, Canada)
Black Rock Games (London)
Electronic Arts (Stockholm/Shanghai/UK)
Jilin 2009 Game and Animation Forum (Changchun China)
Epic Games (Cary, North Carolina)
Avalanche Games (Stockholm, Sweden)
Microsoft Games (Seattle, Washington)
Mondo Media (San Francisco, California)
Scanline Productions (Munich, Germany)
Sony Games (San Diego, Santa Monica, London
Traveller’s Tales Games (Knutsford, UK)
Blizzard Entertainment (Irvine, California)
Midway Games (Chicago, Illinois)
Tippett Studio (Berkeley, California)
Ubisoft (Montreal/Toronto/Shanghai)
Valve Software
Blue Sky Studios
PDI/DreamWorks (Palo Alto, California)
Wild Brain (San Francisco, California)
Irish School of Animation, Ballyfermot/Dublin
Acting for Animators
Self-employed
1996 - Present
Teach professional-level acting theory to animators specifically.
Walt Disney Studios (Los Angeles, Sydney Australia, Orlando Florida)
Rainmaker Studios -Vancouver, Canada
Sheridan Institute – Toronto, Canada
DeTao Masters Academy – Beijing, China
Communication University of China
Makuta VFX, Hyderabad, India
Centre National D’Animation Et De Design (Montreal)
Animex Teesside, UK (11 consecutive years)
SIGGRAPH
GDC 2013 (San Francisco)
Swansea Animation Days
Swansea Institute, Swansea, S. Wales (7 consecutive years)
Catholic University (Oporto, Portugal)
Griffith Film School, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, Australia
College of Creative Studies (Detroit, Michigan)
Cadritech Computacao (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
CGCG (Taipei Taiwan)
Vancouver Film School (Vancouver, Canada)
Emily Carr Institute (Vancouver, Canada)
The Animation Institute at Filmakademie Baden Wurtemburg (Ludwigsburg, Germany)
Full Sail (Winter Park, Florida)
FMX Animation Festival (Stuttgart, Germany) - Program Board
Ohio State University
Ringling School of Animation (Florida)
Bournemouth University (England)
Loyola Marymount (LA, California)
Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne, Australia)
Animal Logic (Sydney, Australia)
BioWare Corp. (Edmonton, Canada)
Black Rock Games (London)
Electronic Arts (Stockholm/Shanghai/UK)
Jilin 2009 Game and Animation Forum (Changchun China)