Reference
- LMA Overview (PDF)
- Effort Overview (PDF)
- Effort: Descriptive Words, by Peggy Hackney (PDF)
- LMA Movement Signature Coding Sheet (PDF)
- Selected LMA Reading (PDF)
Papers
- The Uses and Abuses of Cartoon Style in Animation, Journal of Animation Studies, 2007.
- Body Part Sequencing and Initiation, unpublished essay, 2002. (PDF)
- Relationships between Laban Movement Analysis and Computer Animation, Proceedings of Dance and Technology I, 1992. (5mb zip file, scanned at 150 dpi)
- Eff ort/Shape Affnities in the Cartoon Takes of Tex Avery, unpublished academic paper, 1993. (PDF)
- Fantasia’s Dance of the Hours Sequence: A Laban Movement Analysis of Animated Hippos and Alligators, unpublished academic paper, 1993. (PDF)
- The Use of Laban Movement Analysis for the Discussion of Computer Animation, presented at the Society for Animation Studies, 1991. (PDF)
Conference presentations
- Laban for Animators, Montreal International Games Summit, 2005. PDF or Power Point (best viewed with Internet Explorer).
- Making Characters Move, Game Developers Conference, 2003. (PDF)
- Jak and Daxter Movement Signature, from Making Characters Move, Game Developers Conference, 2003. (PDF)
