Combat study series

Combat animation reference

Study the mechanics that make a strike feel readable, heavy, and intentional—from anticipation and contact to impact, recovery, and reaction.

What to study

Turn clips into decisions.

Track the wind-up, line of action, and timing choices that make the attack legible before contact.

Compare contact poses, hitstop, spacing, and body compression to understand where force is communicated.

Study follow-through, balance, and the return to a guard or new action after the hit.

Curated study set

Open a clip to scrub frame by frame, save it to a moodboard, and follow related tags into the rest of the library.

Search by action, timing, emotion, and mechanics instead of scrolling through unrelated clips.