comic shots tutorial

this tutorial is available to all patrons because tutorial streams were voted for this month! although eventually i'll upload it publicly because i have strong feelings especially about public education and free access to information.

anyway, an unconventional way to do this tutorial, but since it was about comics, i figured it should be a comic.
originally this was going to be part of the big comics tutorial i wanted to do.
i decided i'm just going to crack pieces off of the ideas i presented in there and make smaller tutorials. it's probably less exhausting for an audience as much as myself.

only a few things were cut, such as the reassurance that these aren't rules but guides for if something feels wrong, since i opted for a different lead-out, or dupe elaborating on different ways comics readers will engage with extrasensory information brought along by conditioning through film (like how cartoons with engage with a camera when it's all drawn by hand, or maybe even imagining the foley of tapping an empty fishbowl when viewing them tapping on the imaginary camera's lens).
the other major thing cut was explaining why each shot might look a little bit WEIRD, and connecting it to furries and how some furry designs look UNCANNY and others look fine, despite having wildly different proportions.
human bodies have key points that the brain focuses on to identify other humans and what looks strange, in art these are usually called golden proportions, used to make sure your anatomy is right.
so, for example, cutting off below the ribcage near the belly button is weird because the stomach itself doesn't add a lot to the general line of action in the spine or emoting, but your elbows rest there, so it's cutting the camera at a pivotal joint used for emoting with gesticulations. cutting off at the clavicles is weird because it causes the shoulders to create a tangent with the camera's cutting point, removing another pivotal emotive element... unless they're really tense, i guess.
i also removed more in-detail explanations for shot purposes because i feel like that info is easily accessible online. there are lots of charts explaining basic camera shots in film available already for free. this one just focused on comics specifically.

anyway, i'm glad to have written it all out. it was really useful to go over.