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Another thing I see too often and something my classmates and I were critiqued on a lot back when I was at university.
The raised angle shot with horizon in view, without realising it, is often overused. Its an easy shot to visualise and show everything that happens clearly, but thats not always what you want. It is because this scene shows so much at once that some might be less inclined to change the angle of the shot when this scene already covers what will happen. Thereby they create an excessively long scene that can be daunting to deal with and gets boring to animate all the way through. Just think about when you'll eventually need to check it for errors!
There are a few problems that arise with this kind of shot
You can have too little happenning at once (e.g two characters talking where only one is speaking). Many people with a shot like this may be more inclined to unnaturally copy-paste the other character or the rest of the speaking character's body
At the same time, these shots are also less interesting to the audience. Having the shot zoomed out to see everything happen at once detatches them from the characters and the action. It also makes it difficult for them to focus on all the things, they can easily miss one thing when their focus is unintentionally drawn to something else that happens in the same scene.
Bring the audience in, divide the action into its own shot so they see it clearly and show them exactly what they need to see.
Dividing a long scene into many shorter scenes also keeps things interesting for you - The Animator.
A lot of this stuff is probably a no-brainer to some people. But i do have plenty of other guides too.
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL562E79BF6DA1F9CA
Music: Prelude(Chopin) - Kevin MacLeod
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Another thing I see too often and something my classmates and I were critiqued on a lot back when I was at university.
The raised angle shot with horizon in view, without realising it, is often overused. Its an easy shot to visualise and show everything that happens clearly, but thats not always what you want. It is because this scene shows so much at once that some might be less inclined to change the angle of the shot when this scene already covers what will happen. Thereby they create an excessively long scene that can be daunting to deal with and gets boring to animate all the way through. Just think about when you'll eventually need to check it for errors!
There are a few problems that arise with this kind of shot
You can have too little happenning at once (e.g two characters talking where only one is speaking). Many people with a shot like this may be more inclined to unnaturally copy-paste the other character or the rest of the speaking character's body
At the same time, these shots are also less interesting to the audience. Having the shot zoomed out to see everything happen at once detatches them from the characters and the action. It also makes it difficult for them to focus on all the things, they can easily miss one thing when their focus is unintentionally drawn to something else that happens in the same scene.
Bring the audience in, divide the action into its own shot so they see it clearly and show them exactly what they need to see.
Dividing a long scene into many shorter scenes also keeps things interesting for you - The Animator.
A lot of this stuff is probably a no-brainer to some people. But i do have plenty of other guides too.
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL562E79BF6DA1F9CA
Music: Prelude(Chopin) - Kevin MacLeod
(incompetech.com)
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Last Guardian is amazing. I wont say much with regards to spoilers because it really is quite the journey from start to finish. So obviously, I would want to do some fanart for it =p
Ive also been dying to use the pens because they were a gift to me from my brother. He also gave me a fountain pen which Ive been using to write all of the things ever (Got my christmas cards done super early as a result) but its only with doing these sorts of arts that I can properly utilise the other two pens he gave me. I love using Fountain Pens XD
The materials I use are shown at the start of the video. The only thing that might not be immediately obvious is the paper I use which is watercolour paper. Drawn in pencil first, lined with a fine fountain pen using Carbon Ink and coloured using Watercolours. The flowery pen is just a colligraphy pen with normal black ink.
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