energy? silhouette? arrow dynamics? cohesion? composition? shape?A. For all its notes it's sure fucking lacking in it except for the feet against the belly on the More Appealing When drawingB. This one points towards cohesion as even if you black out the hair that's fucking up the silhouette it just looks fucking boring. Like stock art. By Bento Box.C. This one has a very unclear silhouette, yet t has a fuckton of energy. Way more than F does specifically, even though F gets right the sillhouettal energy????M. Smiles McBendyknockoff feels like he should have more rhythm given all theCƆCƆYET Battarang has a lot more dynaminism to him by breaking that rhythm and doing like a Earthbound Starman thing with his feetD. I guess this is another method used of getting this shit down? Pixar uses it a lot.E. Hands are really the only thing that do this bullshit, it consumes the image because the background also follows it. Without those purple circle lines it would just look weird.F. Really only the leftmost frog is pulling it off, even though her torso is way stiffer than the other ones. I guess it's clearer?G. Somehow drives a god damn stake through all of what I've thought "this bullshit" was yet works. Dynamism? Triangular dynamics like what J does?I. Lacks what J does even with its energy.J. "This triangle's the best fucking thing in the world!"K. 20 Points to silhouette and bendyness. Looking at the top left one it seems to be very intuitive and slapdash whatever "this bullshit" is.L. Despite nailing it with Jax, Kaufo and Ribberty are way more stiff. I think it's on purpose, like they were Jax's "support" and without them he feels blobby.What is it?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC083te8VP4
You're not going to believe this. Gesture. While gesture dictates most of these, that thing you're describing with Jax is just the rubber hose animation style, which is once again, heavily dictated by gesture. Gesture gesture gesture. You'd know this if you actually started with gesture when grinding fundies. It's literally one of the first things you learn. Every single one of these, that directed energy you're talking about? Gesture.
>>7832274To be a pedantic asshole, that directed energy is called the line of action, but yes, this is just gestural drawing which is very popular in western animation.
>>7832274Is the trick to it the refinement of a gesture as opposed to just the surface lineart? Like getting it to flow better or follow a shape like pic related.
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