Digital acting
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Digital acting is the art practiced by the cartoonist of bringing his character to life in an animated cartoon. It is not enough to create the physical appearance of the cartoon character. The basics of the technique of acting can be employed to help you create a believable character.
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[edit] Understand your character
Much as a screen or stage actor does, digital acting requires the cartoonist to get to know his character, its history, its attitudes, its motivations, its likes and dislikes. Even if this aspects of the character are not openly manifested in the script, such an understanding of the character helps to give the character believable motivation.
[edit] Empathizing with the character
Digital acting requires empathizing with the character, the first step to creating empathy in the audience. Whether the audience likes your character or not, the audience must connect with the character enough to identify with the character's situation and therefore to care what happens.
[edit] Animating the character
Animating the character brings it to life, provides it with individualistic movements that are in tune with the character's mood. The animation stems from presenting the character's mood in a multifaceted way.
Likewise, the character's behavior must make sense in turns of the context of events in the cartoon. There must be a cause and effect relationship between behavior and events.
Further having your focus completely on the task at hand makes your character seem truly involved in what he is doing and makes him more believable.
