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[eiichiro]

vincent chansard's thoughts on this cut [x]

Hello everyone, I wanted to talk a bit about the thinking that went into my latest scene. I used to do similar things on tumblr, but twitter word limit has always made it quite complicated. Sorry for the very long, hyper specific posting, but here's some thoughts.

First I want to talk about Michibata-sans ekonte, it is no secret that I am very fond of working with Michibata san, i think she is someone who is genuinely good at everything, both action and acting. For this specific scene, Michibata san told me "The only limit is: "zorro cannot fight back" the idea in this fight is that it is the battle between a very skilled and experienced fighter and a kid with knives. In real life you might have already heard that no matter how good at fighting you are, if someone brings a knife to a fight you run. What immediately interested me in michibata sans konte is this very real fear that no matter how strong zorro is, at any moment a single mistake can be dangerous, despite the strength gap, it creates tension in the fight.

Another interesting thing in michibata san's ekonte was the emphasis on the eyes of the characters, there were a lot of eyes cut, i felt it was a good opportunity to show how they perceive the fight and what is happening, especially for zorro who has to be very attentive to be able to dodge everything, while protecting kaku.

From there, it was my job to add choreography, think about how they should be fighting, and what their style should look like, Michibata-san trusted me, gave me a lot of freedom, and listened to all the requests i had until the end, i can't thank her enough for her trust.

On this subject, I am now going to talk a bit about Zorro's fighting style here. As you might have heard, zorro is a sword fighter, he uses the three sword style. But here, as he not only cant use his swords but also has to hold kaku his capabilities are very limited. What we know about his swordless style is that he uses a few claw moves, can do grappling moves . Ultimately what is interesting here is that zorro has always been someone who'd rather deflect than dodge. Here is one of the instances where he can't

Hence the challenge of thinking about how he would be fighting. Interestingly zorro is both an aerial and a ground fighter, he jumps a lot and has a tendency of blocking until he can land a named attack, you rarely see him go for attrition war, points, or win by bleed out.

In this situation zorro has way more experience than S hawk who is at this point literally a newborn, so i really wanted to go for this honed through experience kind of style where zorro would try controlling the space and distance with his opponent. Although stronger, zorro is very aware of the danger hawks' abilities pose, so zorro would try to create distance, control the sharp parts of hawks, by either blocking or grabbing in the non threatening parts of his body. Something I saw happening very early on is him trying to get rid of kaku by throwing him in the air at a moment where he would see an opportunity to create distance. Zorro also has experience fighting with a huge hindrance in his arms, so there already was references of him moving while using someone else as an object.

Regarding the fighting style of the seraphim, coming up with the way S hawk would fight after the lineage factor kicks in (it's not important info to register but you can see the seraphim eye pattern turn into mihawk's at the start) was the real challenge of the sequence. Usually seraphim's styles seems to be reminiscent of the warlord they're based after, but in the case of s hawk, i'd wager his hand to hand style would be either daz bones adjacent, or cipher pol adjacent as they are the people he probably spent more time around. Cipher pol style of fighting, in the way it has been depicted in the manga, is very similar to the training in martial arts of monks and shaolin trained martial artists. So the way I saw his barehanded fighting style at this point in the story was this very pretty form

which, because of his current lack of experience would lead to a lot of unnecessary movements and telegraphed attacks. Attacks that an experienced fighter like zoro would be able to react to. To him it would probably feel like seeing after images. So far in the story the seraphim have been shown as overpowering anyone they faced, they had yet to encounter an opponent that would make them go "uh why is none of my attacks landing against that mf" although strong they haven't been shown in a very battle smart way so far. When a fighter is not very experienced or have practiced only one martial art their core martial art is very obvious, i liked that for hawks as it reinforce the idea of him being less experienced as opposed to zorros who would look more brawlish mixed ish and harder to read.

Most of the inspiration from Hawk's movement comes from the eagle claw style of northern style kung fu. Lately in animation you see a lot of southern kung fu inspired movement which is great, but i personally am slightly more fond of northern styles. In general I'd like to see different martial arts like taekwondo muay thai, BJJ, we also have some possibilities for boxing in upcoming episodes. On the subject of style, S-hawk's ability to transform his limbs made the choice of using a style with both legs and arm obvious.

Now that it's all said and done, ultimately this fight's narrative importance is much more tame compared to let's say zoro vs king for example, so even though i did my best with the animation i had to make sure it did not feel like zoro's ultimate fight. We will see what we can do once there's a big narrative fight coming, my two next appearances will be very very small, akin to 1101's, but after that, if i have similar freedom as here, i have hope for the next big fight, finger crossed.

ONE PIECE (1999-?) episode 1109 ✴ a tough decision! an unusual united front! created by eiichiro oda

[mintypsii]

they r so cringe 😭

[scrawlingskribbles]

[ *peeks ever-so-cautiously out from the rock I've been living under & wordlessly chucks This out at your feet before scuttling back into the darkness once more* ]

...man isn't it just absolutely wild when a rogue art demon suddenly possesses your body out of the blue one day and decides to necromance the ancient bones of a couple of multiple-years-old askbox requests & synthesize them into a fully actualized Something™ that they never would have even come close to being all those years before? Yeah? You know what I mean? ...........................No? x'3c well,,, anyways—

(they're secret-dating at the time of this scene so that's why they're sneaking around in the woods like this, in case anyone was wondering lol)

[reflexicon]

Hey there! I’m in desperate need of money so I’m opening up commissions! Message me either on here, thru email, or on discord if you’re interested!

[c-kiddo]

finished scavengers reign (again) . . 3rd watch i think. i crode

[payasita]

hi!! chip and I made a fan server out of excitement for the new lmk season! come hang out if you'd like

[ardentpoop]

do we think nephilim (jack) have true forms in the supernaturalverse or nah just the wings situation

[tianhai03]

I posted this on twitter too but I guess I'll also try it here. does anyone here have any movie recommendations that's good for cinematography studies? kinda need to get better at that for work reasons lol

[puppyeared]

Helloooo popping in to say I love your art! It’s cute and feels soft (reminds me of when you’ve got a really smooth pencil and it just ghosts across the paper) but your poses and anatomy also give it a good feeling of realism :D

classic question here; do you have anything you’d say is a big influence on your art? I love seeing what people answer and trying to connect it back to the kind of thing they currently make :]

!! thank u!!! i do wish i could get more creative with angles, but im happy knowing my art gives u that feeling ^_^

I really enjoy comics!! I like poking thru graphic novels and webcomics, so I've fallen into the habit of exposing myself to lots of different styles over time that I'm fairly explorative with my art. It gives me a lot to study, especially since different artists have different strengths and preferences

I also think of myself as a simple person, so I'm not strongly attached to anything in particular... I notice a lot of artists find their ground in certain interests or aesthetics. But since I'm not really like that, I try to put a bit of myself in whatever I draw to connect with my art better. Its probably why I like taking creative liberty when making fanart lol

im also drawn to indie creative work like games and animation! they tend to be extremely varied and unique from each other, which is great since I work from my own sense of curiosity. I also hate repetition, so having things that set themselves apart visually or otherwise is something I like to look for.

[tariah23]

im so sorry you got nasty asks ppl can be so vile. i love seeing you on my dash and you always have the best posts and put great stuff on my dash. ive never watched naruto but i dont mind seeing that either <3 ily i hope youre doing ok outside of ppl being terrible

They had me like this, anon...

[many-gay-magpies]

started watching blue eye samurai and so far i am really enjoying it! my only gripe: why do all the men get to have unique, human faces and then all the women just look like different variations of the same pretty, soft-featured doll? where are my women with wide jaws and big angular noses and big mouths and wrinkles? for that matter, where are the MEN with super soft features? i want VARIETY, mizu being secretly a woman doesn't exactly make sense in a universe where anyone could look at her and go WOMAN just by seeing her face because she had the same soft doll face as every single other woman except slightly less feminine.

edit: thank u to multiple people for the helpful and informative answers on this! i should have waited until longer than three episodes in to complain about stuff but i enjoy complaining lmao

[ritz-regrezzez]

hi!! does anyone know of a crochet pattern that has similar/the same proportions to build-a-bears? id like to make one but im not the best at pattern drafting :( i also don't mind paying for patterns!!

[andromeddog]

hello there fellow gay ww1 enthusiast :D

*pointing dramatically through the crowd* ah hello!!!! there are others out there…. the few the proud….. through posting this stuff online i’ve met a handful of other gay ppl who are into this era but a majority have been what i have to assume are straight guys who really like war and guns and war movies with guns! so it is always nice to find community here and there :^)

[sicc-nasti]

What do you think is the coolest animal bone. or the weirdest looking. take your pick?

OHHH THIS is such a hard QUESTIUOOONNNNN ohhh to make me pick....... ok first one that came in mind are sting ray skeletons with their cool skull

i mean LOOK AT THAT its so beautiful

i want to chew every single one of these. My brain literally cant comprehend what its seeing but shes trying. Weird and cool and beautiful. Man., MAAAAAN

[skypiea]

y’all are so very kind to me and I appreciate it always. thank you everyone for being so niceys

[rostomanologist]

found a piece of footage with @el-is-away s sawyl on which i experimented with slow mo for the edit. tumblr ate all the quality but still