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Animate the roundhouse kick

Animate the roundhouse kick

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Animate the roundhouse kick

- [Instructor] Now let's focus on one major action, the initial roundhouse kick. If you look at our initial sketches, you can see we start in this rather relaxed martial arts pose. So let's get that in here. And, probably, move this foot back a little bit. And we've got this really solid line of action. See this line going up here? I want to make sure that I really emphasize that. Remember, animation, at the end of the day, is an art, so you can overemphasize things. And it looks like I'm going to be showing a lot of my back, so why don't we kind of animate some more of that in here? And you definitely want to have this hand up to get this nice, strong, up shoulder. So let's move this up. And she has her other hand up here, so let's push that in here. And we'll bring this other shoulder up. And sometimes, I like to just cheat, and so, I'm just going to rotate the head down a lot farther, and actually move the head down a little bit. All right. And, you know, I'm still not feeling this…

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