Lucas Martell, creator of the fantastic Pidgeon Impossible short film, has a great blog post up dissecting this shot from Dreamwork’s “How to Train your Dragon” and how it is a fantastic example of using pose to guide the viewer to the portion of interest.
I’ll talk more about this concept in an upcoming podcast, but this still is just so perfect in many ways that I had to share. First off, if you’re not familiar with this idea, the basic rule of thumb is that you want the lines of your pose to lead the audiences eye towards the most important part of the image. Usually this is the eyes of the main character.
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