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Here's CD's How to design your own manga/anime fight and action sequence quick tutorial....This fight sequence is used here:
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WHAT this tutorial aim for: To bridge the gap between using reference and knowledge to designing fight scenes on page.
WHAT this tutorial does not do: Providing various martial arts references or teach you anatomy, you can get that on youtube or other sites.
Suggested books:
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Suggested artist:
安藤真裕 - Masahiro Ando [link]
Edit:
Blog post discussion related to this: [link]
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I am doing this note, tutorial for my friends who have fight sequences in their manga but don't know how to do it.
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I only came to realize how little there is out there on this topic on the net, after talking to a friend of mine about her manga she wants to do, but have struggles with action sequence designs.
When i search, i couldn't find good tutorials right away, that's a sign that people don't talk about this. Most of us who got ok at it just purely learned on our own, and usually does not discuss in tutorial form i believe. Those who are good are too busy doing work for others.
So here's some of my free tips for those who wants it.
I can't say i am particularly good at designing action sequences, but at least i don't have major problems...
As long as i am not doing...
Stare...SLASH, enemy falls.... fight ends.
ERRRRRRK... that's the cheapest.... scene... ever.
(Edit: But One Piece used it with Zoro. lol It works somewhat with Samurai fight style, and you don't need a great fight design for a great story, but it requires no skill in designing this kind of fight, I don't recommend using it and I will not use it personally.)
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Al the other tutorials I found were USELESS. This is so helpful! Thanks!
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general perspective rule, and camera filming rule applies. 
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Thanks a lot!!!! I'm making a sword fighting scene and I have to search for references, It's kinda ilustration, but I want it a little bit dinamic. This was very useful X3
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love this sketch... but my brains hurt everytime im trying to draw the fght... too hard.. any other tips that could help me, bro?
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Hmmmmmmmmm...............I guess i'mma just study how manga artist do fight scenes.
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this helped alot 
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your problem is a basic drawing problem. Try to construct the characters like they do at Disney and you might have an easier time.
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but i dont know how they do it at disney
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Thank you!
I have been struggling to draw fight scenes for my web comic.
You have been helpful.
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you saved me. i've been working on my first shounen-ish manga and the action scenes were attracting flies. haha. the main reason my names get rejected a lot. -_-'
so thank you thank you thank you.
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very informative, was just talkin to my friend about how to do one
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Thank you, bless your heart and have a very merry christmas *now look at my profile pic*
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I'm starting a martial arts comic, this will be helpfull. And that Masahiro Ando it's really good.
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I LOVE how I keep finding you randomly on the internet! 1st youtube then smackjeeves now HERE!
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its very informative and I thank you for that it is also pretty sweet
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Uwah! thank you! this is soooo gonna help me with the action comic that im planning to make TTuTT
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Very useful indeed ._. And btw this IS the only decent tutorial i found out there... That's odd ¬_¬ Anyhow, THANKS!
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Oda is one of my fav mangaka, and a hero, but it doesn't mean he always do no wrong.
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I figured you weren't really, for lack of a better word, dissing him, I just wanted to make sure. Very nice tutorial BTW.
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He does fighting just fine, but his sword fight is "out of this world," that's his style.
YES, some of Zoro's earlier fights was bad, (namely, vol 1) zink, woosh, done, that was "bad" as in,
99% of the mangaka could have done it. It's bad fighting design, but not bad paneling.
It wasn't a bad manga because he used the angle, the techniques well.
Luffy's earlier fights were better.
Later all of Oda's fight design got a lot better though.
But no one will expect his fighting to be like say... Cowboy bepop, where the realistic fight routine is designed by a real martial artists. That takes more knowledge, more consideration, thus in my opinion makes much better fight design.
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Thank you very much! This is very usefull information!
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How to illustrate manga battles?
Read on Tetsuya Sariwatari's TOUGH.
Nice tutorial.
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this is very useful information thank you for sharing ^_^
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Thank you for the suggestions, this will help a lot in my manga!
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I'm trying to find a tutorial that will give the basics of showing movement in sketches. In your sketches you've used a lot of action lines and movement and blocks and that's what I'm looking to learn, but I keep finding tutorials about lines of action (for posing characters) or action lines (the really basic straight or radial lines used in manga) - I'm looking for what you've got a great example of here! Lines that don't just show action in a panel, but action in a single limb, or torso, or head. Do you know of any tutorials like that?
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no idea. O_o
Sorry can't help you there, i don't find good action sequence design tutorial that's why i made one quite frankly.
You can research on "gesture drawing" or " animation sketches" and you will find stuff like this: [link]
Not tutorials but it uses the principles which you might need.
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This is the first fight tutorial I've ever seen! Thanks so much for sharing, I'll certainly use this!
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So helpful, even for someone like me who dosnt do manga, this is amazing
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