The Mawarikomi/Rotating Tracking Shot

Let's learn how to animate a Mawarikomi/Rotating Tracking shot!
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[@RocoPwnage]

Rotating shots in animations have always looked like black magic to me, especially when the background and the action match perfectly. I never thought to look it up but I'm glad I found this.

[@snifferdawg3607]

I’m an animation major from America and these videos are so helpful. Thank you very much.

[@Masterduel012]

what would you recommend me as someone trying to learn animation? something that was helpful to you, like an exercise, a source of information etc

[@resistancepublishing]

How are you doing? I wanted to ask if you’re open for commissions on a small animation promo?

[@thebuniverse6739]

Are you able to pay rent with this career?

[@zikaura]

"Whoever will be in-betweening this scene has their work cut out for them" he just yanked the words right out of my mouth lmao

[@sleepycritical6950]

Me: learning how to animate Dong: casually pulls out an original anime that looks better than anything I can do in just 8 seconds. That said I really appreciate all the work done, I had no idea this was how a rotating shot was done.

[@NobleFrugal]

Wonderful video. That's way simpler than you would think. Thanks

[@rjanimations]

The man who thought me how to use clip studio paint for aniamtion!

[@goomba478]

Your work blows me away. I love that you include the timing sheet instructions and explain everything so well. The part about shading the character yellow being a "Japanese thing" is also very true haha.

[@Nolroa]

The color yellow has a specific reason. It is to indicate the main character in the sequence (A kind of animated storyboard) by highlighting it separately from the background. The yellow color indicates what is going to be animated in the frame for the sequence. (This is something that comes from cel animation when each frame was traced and colored by hand)

[@goomba478]

@@Nolroa Tha's fascinating! I never knew that. Thanks for pointing out the reason behind it :). I figured there was probably a method behind it but never heard the reasoning. Appreciate it!

[@iansalaris9427]

I’ve recently seen your “how to animate a head turn” tutorial and tried it out for myself! These videos are fantastic, I really like how they’re made, every singole one of them is full of clear and useful information! Thank you! For real, I really love and enjoy your content, pls keep it up!

[@anya.k]

Question: in anime, I've seen shots that rotate around buildings in a city (each frame is a different point perspective). I once did a point perspective city drawing and it was the most time consuming drawing project ever. So my question is: when a rotating city shot is shown in anime, do they have any tricks/shortcuts to create those? Or do they draw hundreds of city drawings each with slightly different perspective? Also, I love your videos!! 💖 They always make me feel like my mind is opening up and understanding new things about animation!

[@Ruldolphmaker]

If you know how to draw buildings from memory, you can draw them quicker. But there are Tricks to do a massive rotating city shot without killing yourself: 1: Simplify the buildings in motion. *People are biased,* so if you have a static shot of a detailed, painted background of a city followed in the next shot by rotating or panning around cubes with less detailed linework and simplified shading, People's minds will fill in the blank because they already recognize the moving shapes as buildings. 2: Parallax scrolling This is when you take static images that aren't supposed to rotate and scroll them on different layers in space with different timing depending on their distance from the camera (The further back something is, the slower it moves) . You can actually add this to the first trick to include some more detailed and even painted buildings moving in the foreground of the shot. Not only does it generate depth, but if done with #1 it keeps the illusion of a moving, detailed cityscape. 3: Split the work between people Lets say have a key animator put in the general shape and even some detail of the buildings but have a person or small team come in and detail them. This is a less common approach. 4: Use 3D, lol.

[@IAmYes.]

3d.

[@CorralSummer]

depends on the shot. Got any examples? Can explain how it's done if I see that.

[@maxsoop]

U mean like the soul eater intro?

[@anya.k]

@@CorralSummer I can't remember where I've seen shots like I was describing. But picture if a camera drone circled a skyscraper from a distance while keeping the camera trained on the skyscraper the entire time. You get a spinning skyscraper at the center of the shot, and the rest of the buildings in the shot are all similarly changing perspective and "shape" as they are viewed from different angles. I couldn't find a good example, but you can see a point perspective changing a little bit at 2:17 of this flying AMV kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5u9i5ibidqKnMk

[@mikotoraj]

Awesome tuturial !! Thank you so much ! :) I'm from Madagascar by the way , may this useless information makes you realize that you inspire so many people ! keep up the good work ;)

[@arandompotat0]

You could use the Liquify Tool to correct proportions and position of details.

[@wingbutler]

This video is gold, man! There's a whole ton packed in 15 minutes. Awesome work!

[@champu823]

Love you dong you are amazing this tutorial was relatively more advanced from your previous ones i gotta watch it a couple times more to fully grasp the concepts ❤️ love your videos

[@just_thammi]

so grateful for these videos! thank you!

[@lakkuto]

Amazing content as always dong!!

[@4bluekitty]

I needed this!!!! Thank you so much! Sadly I already submitted my shot, but this will be very helpful for future projects!

[@cozi6587]

Love your videos!!!❤. I'm a rookie animator just animating on my iPad and I find these videos fascinating, It makes me want to work harder on my animations❤️❤️❤️

[@zetsuborocco9526]

Man, your channel is pure gold. Thnks a lot.

[@Blaxpoon]

You make this look so easy, thank you !

[@renegadegodmalice6996]

Looks so dramatic. LOVE IT!

[@lonzoarg]

amazing tutorial dong ! really apreciate it

[@Melissa-gm1zk]

Wonderful work, thank you so much for sharing it!! I need to draw a lot to improve my skills, animation definitely needs consistency and clear shapes

[@princessthyemis]

your videos are so insightful and helpful! thanks so much!!!

[@silasthetomato]

I love your tutorials so much!!!! They are so helpful ❤❤❤❤

[@yezzzsir]

Great demonstration. Thank you.

[@bidhankashyap4490]

Man your rough frames are damn good it doesn't need clean up anymore ❤

[@Phoca_Vitulina]

Thanks as always for this awesome content!

[@esteban-iriarte-animation]

Great video! Thank you for sharing your knowldege and skill with all of us! And have a nice day!

[@gemini9775]

when watching anime we do not realize this hard work wow congrates

[@Aced_]

Very informational thank you❤

[@kbelmar]

This channel is awesome

[@srthipillin7127]

Muchas gracias por la información 100% valiosa ✨👌 ~ Me encantan tus tutoriales y he aprendido mucho gracias a ti

[@mrnine6259]

This is the best dong yeah 👍👍👍👍

[@aceion6110]

Yo this is amazing!!

[@ridalger16]

Thank you so much for this video.

[@szlafrok4648]

Amazing tutorial!

[@Tofu564]

I'm not gonna lie, I spam these, thanks for showing a professional's approach to this shot.

[@dazz_2d]

god ur the person we need

[@masban]

thank you for the technique !

[@AQUARELAMUSICAL]

Best video tutorial

[@khaitran-ri1fc]

very helpful!! thank you a lot

[@Jayat0655]

Merci beaucoup pour cette vidéo incroyable merci merci de me partager t’as science en animation

[@sobicc]

so strong drawings!!

[@cedricadougba324]

Thanks, GOD bless you.

[@rjanimations]

Hey Dong, how much time did you spend on this animation, just curious! Thanks!

[@TUSHAR.24]

Sir you are best ❤️

[@shi9845]

Thank you!!!

[@isdino_]

Awesome

[@Kairegi]

I'll try this one

[@TpoapAnimatesYT]

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[@umrkhayam]

inspiring video mate, how do you know how much to space each key pose?

[@cliffxanimation1118]

Thank you god bless you

[@JINHEE69]

❤❤❤

[@DaElfer]

I remember teaching the head rotation then after showing a mid air kiss rotation from flcl lol

[@gemini9775]

interesting thanks 😃

[@Atomic-toons00]

This guy have reference of that girl from all angles you can use real person then trace on it while using your reference

[@jaysonfontela5761]

💖💖💖

[@Govind_kharbade]

don't stop to make Video I am totally Depend on you. my institute not teach better than you. keeping making 👍

[@juliannguyen5558]

Can you do tutorial about how to animate background in fight scene as well?

[@justdraw4108]

pls make how you become good at drawing like dong chang

[@fuku1u]

one of the tutorial that I rarely find. i looking for a video about soft brush thingy in animation, i don't even know how to call it lol. is it a part of the animation or editing.

[@neemiasteixeira3473]

wow

[@SadTown99]

Mr. Chang! Please do a fight scene animation tutorial 🙏

[@d1studio491]

How would you reccomend learning animation?

[@voyager161]

Where are you finding that nice music?

[@frontrowattheshitshow8849]

Is that ambient music by Beco?

[@mehrabahmedhasam5998]

plase make a video about how to draw figure for animation

[@XerpollAnimation]

What is the standard, animating on 2s or 3s?

[@emeka_rt]

is it possible to do the same background pan process in opentoonz?

[@leonshegetta2682]

What does A1 End note mean on the screen next to the character?

[@yamsuo]

how do you customize the canvas size when exporting?

[@sahiru]

i am not at all new to animation don't get a thing except the drawing part, Really trying to understand that panning thing as for the fact i dunno if its there in krita or not

[@Spxdee]

what does the animation template do is it like a guide?

[@anishwatson7448]

Bro did you work on any anime movie or series?

[@thebuniverse6739]

Before starting this tutorial, make sure you know how to draw first.

[@Pure-O]

😵

[@projectfear22]

Can you explain what those damn red blue yellow or whatnot colored lines are specifically used for? :S

[@TsubasaAnimations]

Red = Highlights or color separation. Blue = Shadow

[@slendy3823]

She wanted to kill the camera man

[@clovergirl2209]

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but really curious about the rectangle on the page drawn with dotted and solid lines, how it is used?ヽ(´o｀；

[@ucchuman]

why do we call those clean line-drawing sheets "tie downs"? because the rough drawing sheets are drawn loosely so the fairly(cleanly) drawn sheets are tighten ones (tie downs) OR because during the traditional times the finalised sheets were tied down ( with a rope inside a file) and given to cleanup department ?

[@Difelder]

Fuck school, ima do it at home

[@PrinceSmithAdventurousMinds]

What pencil brush are you using?

[@soapyrainmaker5367]

It's just the default G-Pen from CSP

[@xamberdragonx]

I challage you to animate in FlipaClip 😎

[@resistancepublishing]

Hi Dong Chang. How are you doing? I’m working on a few characters and wanted to ask if you’re open for commission on a small animation promo?

[@nolantrevannion6160]

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