These are the first few key frames and break downs for my body acting exercise. I think the hardest part is not to get carried away with too much action. Whenever I was trying to shoot the reference for this piece I would have ended up with 40 plus seconds of footage, so it took me few attempts to narrow it down to around 15.
I was going to use the thumbnails to create the key frames and then I got carried away with some different ideas for the action, which I hope will work anyway. It was also hard to reference the video I shoot as my character is a dog, so I constantly have to check the given turnaround to see that I’m not giving the character really long arms. I’ve noticed it’s really really easy to go off scale and I can already see the character getting smaller compared to the initial frame, so I’ll probably need to have the first frame as a background for comparison.
I’m slowly learning the importance of drawing really strong poses for the key frames and exaggerating the drawings to make the action extremely clear to the audience, as subtlety is not necessarily read correctly all the time.
