A lot of animators making these stick fights. Sure it's all like punch-punch kick-kick, but how do you figure out so quickly where to kick/punch and how it looks like? Sorry for such a short thread, there really isn't much to add.

Us PR0 Animators just wing it. That's why we're PR0.

Intermediates use TAB combo generator.

I'm not pro but I just look at each body part of the stick and make use if it.

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Intermediates use TAB combo generator.

Isn't TAB's Combo Generator down/closed?

It's not really about the "Cool" combos but more of the execution of it.

Plan and create keyframes. Although, I didn't really answer your question, the best way I can answer it is by creating "Complex" moves or moves that awe's the audience.

Animating simple chains of punches and kicks isn't going to teach you much about complex fight choreography or martial arts.

It's simple enough. If you want to make cool looking combos, study videos and/or animations of fights with the sort of moves you want to use and apply it to your work.

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Isn't TAB's Combo Generator down/closed?

Nope. It lives on.

But that's so lammeee. Its more creative to think of your own cool combos isn't it?

and yeah you can get a lot of inspiration and moves from other things *cough* anime*