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COMBAT CHOREOGRAPHY

An advanced online course by award-winning animator Howard Wimshurst
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☑ Create a fight scene of your own from scratch
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☑ Freely improvise movement of the human body
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​☑ Sword fight combat

☑ Boost the energy and flow of your choreography

☑ Gain plenty of ideas for action scenes
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​​☑ Hand-to-hand combat
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IN-DEPTH LECTURES

Combat Theory

Understanding combat theory and the structure of combat stories to create entertaining fights people will remember.
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Interpreting Combat Reference

We reverse-engineer live-action cinematography principles. The method is broken down for you to understand and apply to a variety of situations.
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PRACTICAL APPLICATION

Hand-to-Hand Combat

Intricate hand-to-hand combat example - also demonstrating how to set up a motivated scenario with characters and story.
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Sword Combat

We explore a more improvised method of combat in this sword fight demo. this contains my methods for clashing weapons and "3d" movement.
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USE THE SOFTWARE YOU ARE COMFORTABLE WITH

This is an advanced animation course where you are expected to know how to use your animation software.
​The drawing and animation principles covered in the course are not specific to any program, but all of the lessons are demonstrated in TVPaint
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20% DISCOUNT - TVPAINT SOFTWARE​

Save yourself ~$295 when buying TVPaint professional edition, or ~$118 with standard edition.

Members of the course benefit from a 20%* discount on TVPaint software
If you plan to buy TVPaint, this course effectively "pays for itself".
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​The Way of the Professional Animator

This video series contains the tactics, motivation and mantras I use to be an effective professional animator. It's the best advice I have to offer anyone considering animation as a career.
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