Post first swordfight thoughts

So I only have one more shot to do to finish off this first swordfight in the film...

- Motion clips work great for blending together multiple separate actions like... running + jumping + slashing... The only problems I've had with them is when a character is spinning 180 degrees and that motion clips is mixed with others that are not rotated... I tried using a pivot object to rotate the other clips but it ended in chaos... I'm sure theres a correct way to do it but I couldn't spend too much production time trying to get it to work...

- Good sword fight scenes are all about good strong opposing poses... get the poses right and half the work is done... watch J Samurai films from Gosha or Okamoto to learn how to do it right... I also learned a lot about showdown poses from DBZ... DBZ used still poses with minimal animation to GREAT effect... the action in Samurai showdowns really comes from the music because its not like Chinese swordplay with lots of superfluous action to make things interesting... So its strong poses and dramatic complex music... at least thats what I like...

- Fight scenes like many other things in film are all about rhythm... The camerawork is part of the rhythm, type of lenses...static/moving camera? ....as is the posing and the intervals of action/non action....

I have many other thoughts and I will share them as production goes further ^ ^Brought to you by professional weirdo M dot Strange.