Secrets of Cartoon Action, Choreography Meditations

Choreography Meditations, Live Action vs. Animation.

Dragonball Z vs. Shaw Brothers

One thing I noticed is how flat Shaw brother compositions are compared to Dragonball. There's usually not very many foreshortened camera shots of body parts in live action choreography, But in a lot of Asian animation fight choreography, there is.

In Dragonball Z, the characters' limbs and body parts stretch and overlap the camera shot and angle, and get cropped by the edge of the screen. Limbs, hands, feet, necks, and feet and legs and arms art foreshortened to look further away from the camera than they actually are. This is the advantage of being a cartoonist, you can stretch and crop limbs out of the camera shot and composition.