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Movement

Movement - Photoshop Tutorial

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Movement

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- [Instructor] Of course, characters are often tasked with moving through a scene. It's important to keep in mind the direction of that movement, because that's the direction our eyes will want to move, as well. Let me demonstrate. First, let's look at this page, where we, once again, have a conversation between our two characters. But this time, it's a little bit more of an argument. The man is walking ahead of the woman and ignoring her until here in panel one, two, three, four, five, six, when she says something that gets his attention and completely stops him in his tracks, and literally changes his direction. This helps us to understand the moment of interest on this page, even without dialog, we know something has changed. If we had several panels of him going left to right and then left and then right again, we wouldn't get that same effect of his change at that moment when she said something that really gets to him. Now let's look at this page, where there's a bit more…

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