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hey guys, i'm making new film and im struggling to get a good fight scene. i'd like to know if anyone could give me any tips please, maybe a tutorial because my lego never look smooth when im doing a fight scene, and i dont know what moves to make my legos do when fighting.
thanks! ac films
Last edited by allanabanana (July 3, 2012 (07:22pm))
Pretty much, try to keep the pace of your fight realistic, keep the moves flowing naturally, and ease in and ease out. Alternate between punches, kicks, slaps, and make sure that the characters take advantage of their props and surroundings. Sound is also extremely important. Make sure that you have different, realistic sound effects for each action; and make sure that you have the characters breathing heavily or grunt occasionally. Also, film a video of you and a friend stage fighting. Then, study the movements and use them in your animation. If you can't film yourself fighting, then study a fight scene in a film. Break it down frame by frame so that you can see how it looks according to your frame rate. Lastly, just practice. Nobody becomes a legend overnight, but those who practice can achieve great things.
Here is a great link to a tutorial about 'easing in and easing out'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XrRJAiIepY
And here are some links to brickfilms with some good fights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmbeLWtX … re=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsDfBw4DUd0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijpH6an-JIQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FcQ9SUX … ature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCn54MPvtE
Last edited by Juggernaut Pictures (July 3, 2012 (07:47pm))
Here's something I typed up a while ago in another topic about fighting:
Well, I kinda have some experience with that... mini/yes
First, I start out with a basic idea for what I want in the fight, have a couple of specifics or two, but never plan it perfectly and leave loads of room for improvisation. Like how the fight might be generally sword fighting, and at one point it'll have an explosion.
Then I build the set, making sure it have enough room to do what I want, and a bit more, along with some props which will work for what I want. in (Enter Vladimir Vango) I wanted to finish it off with an explosion, so I put a box of dynamite in the corner. In How to Not Rob a Bank (still not finished with post-production) I made sure to put some couches in there, because I wanted to have someone be dodging a mafia boss with machine guns, and the bullets hit the couch and make white fuzz come out.
Then make the fight, just try to do what ever you think is best, then just connect the dots so that the pre-planned things you've thought up can happen too. And try to keep it interesting.
Another thing, FancyPants mentioned on his Force Unleashed topic, which is one of the greatest fights ever, that for some movements where he wasn't exactly sure about them, that he took more frames, because it's much easier to delete frames than to make them magically appear.
Pretty much, try to keep the pace of your fight realistic, keep the moves flowing naturally, and ease in and ease out. Alternate between punches, kicks, slaps, and make sure that the characters take advantage of their props and surroundings. Sound is also extremely important. Make sure that you have different, realistic sound effects for each action; and make sure that you have the characters breathing heavily or grunt occasionally. Also, film a video of you and a friend stage fighting. Then, study the movements and use them in your animation. If you can't film yourself fighting, then study a fight scene in a film. Break it down frame by frame so that you can see how it looks according to your frame rate. Lastly, just practice. Nobody becomes a legend overnight, but those who practice can achieve great things.
thank you so much! this helps a lot and the links you gave me were really helpful too! 
thanks that helped too, because there are specific things i wanted to include in my fight scene but wasn't sure whether to improvise for the rest, or plan it. thank you very much both of you.
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