From the course: Essential Technical Aspects of Animation

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Line of action

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- [Instructor] I'm always amazed when I see one of the most basic mistakes made in major Hollywood movies and TV shows that a person could make and that's crossing the line. Sometimes called the line of action or the line of the camera. Let me show you what that is. So, if we have a character moving toward a direction or speaking to another character, we imagine an imaginary line connecting them. So in this case, the figure is moving from left to right along this imaginary red line. So that's the line of action or sometimes called the line of the camera. So you do not, unless there's a very good reason to cross that line, you set up your cameras or your storyboard panels on one side or the other. So let's show you what happens when we break this rule. So this is the character shot from the A camera, and this is him shot from the B camera. And then imagine that I caught from one to the other and back again. This is the…

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