Sketch Gallery on the Behance Network. Salesman Pete Trailer. Salesman Pete. McKinney. Line of Action - Mickey's Christmas Carol. The line of action is a key ingredient to making your character’s poses look more dynamic. As shown in this post, the position and posture of the characters in the scene can greatly effect the staging and composition for any animated scene. In addition, it can help to place the characters within the situation, making them part of their environment and the story. Some ways to strengthen the pose (and overall composition) of the character is to create a nice silhouette, this is the overall shape of a pose. This shape should read clearly even if the pose were filled in black you would still be able to tell what the character is doing.
The use of negative space and overlapping shapes for posing characters creates clear silhouettes, see the empty spaces between the arms and legs and major forms in these drawings: Another method is to create a strong line of action through your character. Here's some Preston Blair examples with Tom & Jerry: Here are the 2 poses we see and feel in the animation. SWAY › home. Toby Shelton: stuff i did. THE ART CENTER / Sharing Ideas And Tips From Artist To Artist. Here are a few quick little tip sheets I put together for some of my friends who are currently doing storyboard tests and looking to get into boarding. 1.
Be Careful of Theater Staging There are no "right" or "wrongs" with storyboarding, only ways that work better than others. Figure out what you want to convey in a scene, and find the best way to present those ideas to your audience.2. Note: there would obviously be more panels if this was flushed out, to play up the acting and also hook up the action. This is a simple theory of cutting that can easily help create a sense of continuity within a sequence and or exchange. The example above is a bit rudimentary for the sake of demonstrating the concept. As long as you continue to establish any new screen spacing, the sequence should maintain a certain level of continuity that will allow the audience to follow along quite easily. 3. This is a similar theory to #2 however involves more characters and objects moving in and out of frame.
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