This week, I started blocking based on several of Bruce Lee’s iconic moves. There were several points needed to be pay attention to. First one was about timing. As the body moved, it couldn’t go too fast or too slow, or it would become unsatisfied and uncomfortable. Secondly, when he was doing one-handed push-ups and then standing up, his fingers and palms couldn’t go through the ground. In fact, it is the body drives the arms, and then the arms drive the wrists to move. Thirdly, it was about the fluency of moves. For example, when he intended to do push-ups, he pushed one leg back and bent the other leg at the same time, supported the ground with his fingers and the push-back leg, and shifted the gravity of his body to the side of the support to ensure the balance of the body.
To understand the steps of moves, in my opinion, the best way is to act ourselves. I remember Luke said ‘every animator is a good actor’.
(I have couples of screenshots to demonstrate the situation mentioned above. Unfortunately, the space of blog was running out, so that I was unable to upload those pictures.)