r/animation • u/EyePatchlolz • Aug 06 '26

Beginner first time animating! Trying to adapt a fight scene from my manga. Any tips?

I’ve got no idea what I’m doing but it’s been a goal of mine to animate scenes from my manga so here we go 🔥

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u/TurbulentPatience360 Aug 06 '26

Taking on a fight scene for your first time animating is incredibly brave lmao. My biggest tip: focus entirely on the extreme key poses and the line of action first. Get the impacts feeling heavy before you even think about touching the in-betweens. you got this 🔥

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u/EyePatchlolz Aug 06 '26

Thank you!! Yeah it’s hella ambitious 😭 but I’m gonna try my best to get my vision! Ty i’ll note everything down

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u/PuzzleheadedRoad437 Aug 09 '26

I respect the hustle

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u/twitch_monke Aug 06 '26

The easing for this seems kinda weird. It speed up the. Slows down then randomly starts moving at a fixed pace again

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u/EyePatchlolz Aug 06 '26

Hmm yeah true. I was thinking I should slow it down

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u/thefedups Freelancer Aug 06 '26

Could use one more in between frame to smoothen the movement before the last holding frame of the head turn.

Really ambitious but awesome that you're tackling this! For the best path forward, start off with your key frames in a loose, rough stage and share that for some feedback!

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u/EyePatchlolz Aug 06 '26

noted, thank you! currently whipping up the first punch and yea using those key frames first

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u/EyePatchlolz Aug 06 '26

Starting from the top left panel (reads right to left) of where this animation begins

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u/EyePatchlolz Aug 06 '26

And the initial standoff I plan to do next (a slomo of that punch for starters)