ED HOOKS

ED HOOKS

Acting for Animators / Story Consultant

Los Angeles, CA

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Author

Acting for Animators (2011)

Work History
  • Acting for Animators Masterclass

    WB Games / Avalanche

    August 2019 - Present
    Stockholm, Sweden
  • AFA Masterclass

    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)

    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

  • professional actor

    Film Industry

    1970 - 1998

    hundreds of roles - tv, film, stage

Education
  • acting

    American Academy of Dramatic Arts

    1969 - 1971