2021/11/5
Just a simple exercise.
I chose a clip from the Overwatch Animated Short “Dragons” as my reference. I tried to reproduce Genji’s knife drawing. Here is the reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ09xdxzIJQ&t=4s This is a very fast motion in the original, and here is a shot of the slowed down one in project.
The actual action is more complicated than expected. The character initially draws the knife with a forehand. When he swung the knife to the other side of his body it was with his backhand. It was a forehand as he brought the knife to the other side again.
So I had to find a way to switch the way he held the knife. But this is really hard to do in real life.
Finally, I tried to mimic the dragon’s path in special effects. I used particle effects instead. It’s just a stupid special effect 😛