Saturday, December 12, 2009

Setups 1 - planning for multiple scenes to use the same setup - long shots

when you read through a storyboard, you look for scenes that use the same angle and same camera distance

http://jkcartoonstories.blogspot.com/2009/12/slabs-first-fist.html

when you find them, you try to design a layout that can use the same "setup" for all the scenes



In other words, one master Background that all the action can take place in

That means you have to plan how much space you need around the characters in order to be able to draw all the most extreme poses

Like all these images can use 1 setup:

This is a "long shot" That means the camera is far away enough to show the whole bodies of the characters.


so you have to plan all the drawings to work on the same background, and the sixes of the characters have to make sense from pose to pose

if they are on the bed they are smaller

if they are on the floor in the foreground they are bigger

if there are consecutive poses within a scene, the poses have to "flip" between each other

This lesson is to draw all these poses, so they use the same background, and that the consecutive poses flip.

You also of course have to remember everything from previous lessons - like negative space, style, not toning down the poses etc.

Questions?

1 comment:

  1. WOW.... I am following this sequence in the stuff blog... I will start to work on that as soon as I finish some comic book pages that are due tuesday.

    when I am not working on the studies of the Cartoon College I am drawing other stuff and always trying to apply the principles that we study here. It helps a lot and I can tell the difference in my work when I look to the drawings I was making before.

    this drawings from the last DB sequence are awesome... specially the fight ones.

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