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Not too sure about this, but maybe look to anime/animation and comic books for reference? For still images, I think you should create the picture around the specific motion that you want to convey. Use the posing, composing, camera angles, scale, and lighting to put emphasis on one key movement and may try to blur the other parts out. Exaggeration could be the most important, but I could be wrong about that. I think you could add little details, like leaves and debris that get moved by the characters or get caught up in their wake. Think little dust clouds from characters jumping or running. Or little puffs of dirt and wood chips/grass.
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or the debris clouds from asteroid impacts?
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You can "feel" that the object is moving even though it is a still image (maybe not). In the asteroid's case it is extremely bright and has a lot of little motion lines and the debris spreading out from it.
In terms of your pictures, your movements could be the dodge, the strike, and the lunge.
Little things that could convey or enhance these motions.
-Maybe the woman didn't quite dodge the spear? It caught a strand of her hair or maybe it leaves a scratch that wasn't there before. Maybe there's a trail of blood that's left behind that the camera can focus on or that the light can catch.
-Maybe focus on how the woman angles/curves her body to avoid getting hit and position the camera to capture that. Maybe bring the camera closer so that the viewer feels like the woman???
-You could also focus the camera on the spear tip?
-If the goblin lunging is the main focus, one thing you could do is to keep him on the left (or whichever side you want him to be on)? I think I've heard of something like this before in movies. Switching which side the figure is on in the frame can interrupt the feeling of a continuous motion.
Not too sure about this and correct me if I'm wrong. Nice renders btw.
Mmmm... Sort of partly right, but your including Film/Animation into a Single Image Framework, how can you show something that wasn't there 30 seconds ago, when you haven't seen it. Not everyone wants to do 20 different renders, just to show X amount of movement, sometimes it can be enough of a struggle to get that one image rendered. And yes it's a nice render...
