Camera
Cut on the action. The settle is the first frames of the next shot, not the tail of this one.
Sizes
- Establish is wide. The world is the subject. The figure is small or absent.
- Sakuga is a medium or a tight action. The body reads in silhouette.
- Button is a close-up, or a return to the wide, plus the line.
Get closer by cutting. The only zoom is the 100% to 106% hold described in skills/html-anime-timing/SKILL.md.
Placement
Eyes sit on a third. Leave room in front of the gaze. Do not center every face.
The brightest shape is one of: the moon, the blade, the practical light. On the close-up the iris may match that light, using the iris hex from the sheet.
Frame
- 16:9 is 1920×1080. Letterbox bars are part of the frame if you want them. Keep faces out of the bars.
- 9:16 is 1080×1920, composed tall. Head in the upper half. Type in the lower fifth. Do not crop a wide picture into a portrait frame.
Depth
Back to front is sky, far silhouette, mid figure, rain, close figure, type. Rain may sit between the world and a close figure so the close-up feels nearer than the weather.


