Avatar - The Last Airbender thumbnailing

As I'm attempting to thumbnail for Project Apricot, I've been finding it really helpful to study the framing, composition of other comics, photos, and animations.  So I turned to one of my favorite stories and shows, Avatar - The Last Airbender.  I particularly love their action sequences, and thought it would be a perfect place to start learning about how to tell an action scene story effectively.

My goodness!!  It was so helpful and enlightening!  It showed me the limitations I'd be faced with in trying to portray complex action scenes (as complex as they had) in the comic form versus animated form.  It also showed me a lot about framing and composition that can serve the scene's intention.  Anyway, here are the thumbnails from about half of episode 2.

And just the act of practicing thumbnailing really added to my sense of feel for it.  It lets me feel out the boundaries of what I can do, what I can try, and how to best capture the scene in my head.  I'll post later some of the thumbnails I've been doing for Project Apricot, and it's pretty easy to see the improvements between the first attempts and the later ones.