Originally Posted by
SruX
I got you brosif My question is kinda weird so bare with me here toribash has been around for a wile and people have been making replays for years. So how do i come up with original replays when almost every type of replay has been made
this question is fine. i had this problem a lot too, since initially my replays were too similar to eachother
as Larfen said a few times already, it is almost impossible to be completely original in the first 40-50 frames of a replay, because everyone has their tori start from that T position. generally, our instinct is to immediately rotate chest and swing arms to gather momentum.
after that there are a lot more possibilities. it is difficult to come up with original stuff because, besides the fact that it needs to be new and different, it should probably look
good aswell.
when working on a replay, sometimes you notice that there are a lot of times where a part of the replay looks familiar. for example, how many times have you seen this setup in replays?
i imagine the answer would be a lot. the reason things like these are so common is because it is very easy to get a lot of momentum from those positions. however, from my experience, the key to making a replay that stands out from the rest, is it do the least expected in these setups.
i always try to think of all the possibilities i can go for when i have a setup, and i immediately discard the most obvious one. in the image above, the most obvious one would be to extend left knee and right hip, rotate left and swing out the arms for lots of momentum and a high jump. that is what i would
avoid doing, because it is what a lot of people would immediately do.
the hard part is finding out about other possibilities. we are so used to doing what seems more effective that it is hard to look at the image above and think of other ways to use that setup. i myself cannot think of anything to do with that setup besides the obvious, so my decision would be even more extreme - delete that setup from my replay and try to make another, better one. the more possibilities it allows, the better.
of course, there is a downside to all of this. it is really hard to make weird stuff look good. i do not recommend that replaymakers should immediately try to do weird stuff if they are new, but if you are not new and do wish to try and spice up the replays, i suggest watching replays by people who are style-focused. these people usually have replays full of weird stuff, and make it look good. my favourite atm is probably
Larfen, my favourite replay by him being
this one.
try to notice how he does not always do the most obvious (the opener in the replay i linked in particular is an authentic ASSAULT of weird spins and positions, and they all look amazing in my opinion), a lot of times he keeps a slow spin instead of speeding it up by kicking the ground. other wacky replaymaker you might want to see: CheZDa, he is a bit older and i do not have any of his replay threads, but im sure you can google him or some of his videos.
good luckk
Last edited by pusga; Jul 5, 2015 at 12:14 PM.