#camera angles

[fruitydemogorgon]

Notice how in all of the season 5 promo Mike and El have been angled 45 degrees towards one another?

Aside from the reunion scene. The forced hug. The awkward retraction. Notice how, in that shot, they are facing one another? Half of Mike's head is cut off? Because Mike and El are not on the same page about their feelings, especially when they are performing for everyone else.

Whereas...

Mike and Will are always side by side. Level. On the same page. Whether they communicate with words or actions.

Mike and El are like Nancy and Steve. Mike and Will are like Nancy and Jonathan.

That is until Nancy and Steve break up. And then they are angled 45 degrees towards one another.

Mileven have already, or are very nearly, broken up, your honour.

[amethyst-wind-uk]

Sulemio/Mioletta is just so fun to look back on.

I was rewatching GWitch episode 11, and I noticed something.

When Suletta is talking to her mother in the bathroom, she's shown upside down and spinning in place, like she's lost in space.

Then Miorine knocks, and the camera WHIPS around to fixed upright. It stays there for the rest of the episode...

...except at the point where Miorine calls Suletta stupid ("Baka!"), and Suletta's insecurities resurface as she and the camera starts spinning helplessly again and being shown without an upright orientation.

The spin stops and upright fixed upright camera positioning returns again when Miorine asks her what's wrong (in a brusque, but not insulting manner).

And then, as Miorine pours her heart out to Suletta, the two of them and the camera stay fixed upright for the rest of the scene.

[ran-and-dom]

[evelyns-ramblings]

cause what the actual *screeching*

[sw1ft-sniff]

My analysis on the fight scenes in LMK and why I find them so appealing.

The first point I’m gonna say is the animation, the fluidity of the animation throughout the whole show makes the fight scenes so clean.

Second point would be the amount of dynamic shots used/shot types along with the setting used for the fight scenes. Like with some fight scenes you get bunch of POV’s in one scene e.g Pokémon xyz Ash and Greninja vs Charazard and Alain, Yugioh during the card duels, Sailor moon fights usually consisting of one city scene/a blank void/or space. Even some fight scenes I've seen in lego ninjago. They're really good at angling and shot types but they usually stay in one area enclosed area because they not Lazar blasting beams of concentrated light around.

However, with lmk, not only are they focusing on diverse angling and shot types, but the scenes used change and move with the fight. Kinda like with DBZ and my second favourite anime fight, which is the final face off in glitter force/precure Domi Doki.

E.g, the first fight between MK and Red Son through the city going from extreme close ups to low angle full body shots, or the far wide shots with MK and Azure going to high action moving shots. In every scene, there is so much movement, so much life, there are barely any still moments, and it all flows fantastically.

Then moving though the diverse movement and action types, there is a good mix between action packed hand to hand combat and inane magical Monkie power moves. I also noticed that they did a really good job at incorporating Red Son’s fire powers with the hand to hand combat in season 1 and the first time we see Wukong and Macaque fight they battle it out hardcore style. Not to mention there is a large array of attacks and weapons that the whole cast uses, Pigsy uses a rake for Gaia’s sake! A RAKE! And it works so well.

Then there is the characters themselves, the dialogue and serious monologuing paired banter and casual language makes the characters so relatable and likeable, it literally feels like they were people pulled from real life that got chucked into a show they like and have to fight beasts all the time. Then when the show does get serious it’s never so serious that it gets cringe it’s always combated by some lighthearted relief that stops anything from going from super serious to cringe, e.g S04 EP07 MK fighting the ink scroll version of himself has the whole serious scene and then mentions how the whole event will ‘haunt his nightmares forever.’ I love that.

Finally the emotions before, during and after the fight, there is always emotions through out the fight but the animation being so emotive makes every scene so much more emotional and impactful. The characters always have a different or cool expression whether it be goofy or sad they’re always making a really animated facial expression. Emotions and thoughts are even conveyed to us viewers though the shot type and angling. Positioning MK in the Azure Lion fight where they appear tiny but then swapping it around when it's clear that MK is beating his ass hyping up the audience and telling them visually that MK is the fucking goat.

God this is a lot but I was long over due a rant post and LMK happened to be the subject of thay

[siqueiroscribbl]

Background + Camera Effect Test

Bluesky Thread - The Story with clips.

Bluesky Thread - Learning how to do backgrounds because I don't really do backgrounds lmao

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Notes below:

This is the first time I made a background and since it was mostly practice because I was terrible at perspective, here are some things I learned. I also find it comforting you technically can't see all of it, idk lol

Research & Resources

Was doing some shopping, found out that the Framed Perspective books are free on the internet archive, which you can download here.

I also watched the following videos about perspective grids, backgrounds, and background painting. I think I did an okay job despite it not even being in full view. but I made it large, just in case.

Other things I learned, since I use Clip Studio Paint:

Setting a tone check layer to "color" with it full black color fill helps to switch it on and off for checking things like the tone/gray scale of the piece. So the yellow border of the score board is actually lighter than what you color pick from the sprite sheet.

To avoid repainting things, A. I had colors on different layers B. In clip studio, to do the hue/saturation/luminosity shift, is CTRL + U.

This is indeed one of the best and only perspective grid that you'll need. This is what I used for this particular background and will use a lot more for the next parts which...are going to be a challenge but I've always been a "throw me into the pool" to see if I'll sink or swim.

And uh, that's all I have so far. If you'd like to throw a tax deductible donation to fund this fan project, head over to my non profit blog. Use the PayPal button or Ko-fi.

[commander-shran]

[shirozen]

Capturing multiple angles