A Supporting System for Creating Camera Blocking of the Humanoid Robot Anime's Battle Scenes

Robot anime is one of the most popular genres in Japanese anime, and it is very popular in all around the world. In this study, we have focused on “battle scenes”, a popular characteristic which is usually composed by large number of shots showing robots actions, power, speed and so on. The purpose of this study is to create a supporting system, which include camera blocking for when producing battle scenes. In this research, we have analyzed robots' common actions with the characteristic of camera blocking from existing robot anime, organized the screen structure that characterizes robot anime, and we were able to found out the trending of these works. After doing so, we were able to create a supporting system for camera blocking for when producing robot anime's battle scenes using the data found in this research. The support system also shows reference information for producing structure or shot design for battle scenes.