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Alright folks in this clip I'm going to teach you how to draw movement. Movement is something
that basically gives inanimate pictures a sense of animation. Without it, well, that
would, attempting to create the illusion of at least these drawings can feel very flat
and very, very boring. One way that we do this is by showing what's called as a motion
path. The way do we show what this motion path it looks like is by first creating a
pose, pose itself. So you come up with a pose, such as, say this one that we're drawing here,
where you got a guy in a bit of a Ninjitsu-like pose. We're going to draw his foot kind of
up into the frame, like that. So his sole, his shoes kind of interface there. So there is the movement as it looks, that
is a kick right there. And I would say, that looks like there's a bit of movement there
anyway, but if we didn't add what we were about to add next, this could be very positively
be like a freeze frame, that maybe he's stuck in this really weird pose on lying on the
ground, we don't know. So the way that we show exactly what's going on, there's a couple
of different ways. First of all, we show the leap by drawing a line from the base of the
leap up to where his limbs are at now. Draw one line leading up to become that basically,
into perfect symmetry with his foot that's up. And another it curves in towards his knee,
just like that. That creates a sense of movement. Another way we do that is we show a little
bit of a motion blur on his extremities, such as his feet. This creates a sense of motion.
This basically allows to see that, "okay, in this particular piece of movement here,
this guy was once in the ground, down here. He's now leaped up into the air, brought his
leg up and it is definitely moving to kick something. So even though the pose says quite
a bit, it is really the emotion path that really sells this particular thing. And any
time you do any type of movement, whether it'd be running, jumping, flying, leaping,
punching, kicking, the motion path is essential to telling exactly, you know, what the move
is; or where it came from or where it's going. People use this in comics all the time; and
in Japanese animation you'll often see the entire frame full of like this motion, blurring.
All you see is the character, leaping forward to this vortex of motion basically. And that
is to sell the image as being, you know, there's a lot of movement, there's a lot of power
going on. So again, it's all about the motion path and the motion, the foot little motion
blur to establish that this is in fact a moving image.