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Character Animation and the Embodied Mind—Brain

Patrick Power

London Metropolitan University, Room 315, Ladbroke House, 62-66 Highbury Grove, London N5 2AD, UK, p.power{at}londonmet.ac.uk

This interdisciplinary investigation of aspects of 3D character animation synthesizes relevant research findings from diverse perspectives, including neuroscience, narratology, robotics, anthropology, cognitive psychology and philosophy of mind, and considers how they might be integrated as theory for animators and animation studies. The article focuses on the creative nature of character conception and creation in a 3D animated environment and on aspects of character — narrative and style, in particular. It examines how findings from interdisciplinary research on the embodied mind—brain, including neuroscientific research with regard to mentalizing and simulation theory, can inform the creative animation process and might be gainfully synthesized in an animation studies context to inform both pedagogy and creative practice.

Key Words: 3D • aesthetics • animation • anthropomorphism • character • embodied • mind—brain • narrative • neuroscience • simulation

Animation, Vol. 3, No. 1, 25-48 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1746847708088734
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