Step and palm hit

[super8mm]

A scene on a rooftop of a girl practicing martial arts.
http://vimeo.com/8890173

It was difficult to realize since it's a facing hit so I had to innovate a technique to make arms and legs appear larger the closer they are to the camera.

I scaled points for the hands and shoes but the legs I used parallel bones. One for the skeleton another scale bone parallel to it for scaling the width of the legs. If the scale bone is closer to the skeleton bone it's makes a thinner width if it's further it appears thicker.

I hope the hit looks powerful and convincing.

[slowtiger]

That's a clever bone trick.

The hit looks convincing, but the rest, I'm afraid, not. From what I know from kung fu movies, they don't move continuously, but stand still most of the time and only move in short controlled outburts of energy.

[neeters_guy]

Don't know martial arts, but doesn't the arm usually extend with the opposite leg?

Still, your methods are pretty creative. I'm always looking forward to see what you come up with next.

[super8mm]

That's a clever bone trick.

The hit looks convincing, but the rest, I'm afraid, not. From what I know from kung fu movies, they don't move continuously, but stand still most of the time and only move in short controlled outburts of energy.

Yes, in a battle there is swift movements whereas in practice you go through the motions and practice proper pose and stance.

[super8mm]

Don't know martial arts, but doesn't the arm usually extend with the opposite leg?

Still, your methods are pretty creative. I'm always looking forward to see what you come up with next.

Try it yourself, make an outstretched forward punch and try each leg and you'll notice with the same side you have more reach, power and control then with a counter balancing leg.

We'll see, I'm relatively new to AS and exploring what it can do.