Someone on YouTube suggested that a great exercise to improve your story-boarding, gesture drawing and animation skills was to take clips of your favorite movies and trace them.
I used Photoshop to draw all the frames over top the video on my XP-Pen Artist Display 15.6 Tablet.
Exercise 01
This is my first attempt to recreate the fight scene between Bruce Lee and O'Hara in enter the dragon. I limited myself to an hour for this first exercise.
This exercise only uses 37 frames for .25 min of footage.
Another fun exercise to improve my story-boarding, gesture drawing and animation skills by taking various fight clips and tracing them.
I used Photoshop to draw all the frames over top the video on my XP-Pen Artist Display 15.6 Tablet. This exercise
This time I wanted to try something a bit more complicated so I picked a another fight from "The Perfect Weapon". Since there was so many figures I tried to use as few lines as possible. It still took me over my allotted hour for this exercise.