This pic isn't spectacular, but the animation hasn't been seen before by anyone but me. You may or may not notice that my fight scenes are a bit cold. The animations are stiff and ugly. The characters are low-polygon, so what am I supposed to do? Well, I'm supposed to make up for it, not make an excuse for it. So I spend a few hours adding secondary, reactionary, and tertiary motions to the animation to bring up the realism. If I want this to be a full-motion anime in six months, I better get going. As you can see, this punch is a little more fluid. I like it especially. If I could show you the video of it, you'd be amazed, I bet. Except for the legs. I only put a bit of rotation in the hips and knees. I need to put more flexing of the ankle and toes. So the lesson for tonight is: people never move stiffly. They always have to use their lower body to move their upper body and their upper body to move their lower body. They move their left arm back to move their right arm forward and visa-versa. Why do they do this? Not only is it more efficient, it's physically easier. Using Newton's Laws of Physics, we know that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Thus when a person moves their right arm forward, they must counteract the movement at the same time. The only thing that keeps us accelerating and decelerating in this world is friction. We push off the ground, we push off the air, and we push the water around us in the opposite direction of where we want to go. Thus we get a relative motion, but the entire system must conserve energy and momentum.
Ack! It's Scene 3 Page 2 as promised! I feel good about it. It's a bit of work. I really wanted to get it done, so here we go. This page's dialogue might surprise a few people. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. Jav talks about his past. But of course Jav is in the future, so if the person in the present draws the person in the future talking about being afraid, then what does it say about the person in the present? Draw the logical conclusion yourself, I won't say it myself.
Don't look at this page for more than thirty seconds, Scene 3, Page 2 is up!. I don't completely go back on a good promise that I make. Laziness? I think not. I think the word is perseverance.
Ah, another Christmas pic. This pic is slightly less quality and slightly more illegal. Well, technically not illegal. We were all in Canada and we had fun in a resort town. Part of our fun was using the lower drinking age to our advantage. We drank some stuff that tastes similar to lemonade. Of course, it wasn't lemonade, it was spiked stuff. We got a little bit silly. I started acting crazy and people got worried about me. But I was just faking it. I'm good at faking intoxication. I live my life in the state of perpetual intoxication. I forget who said (perhaps Aristotle) "Youth is a state of perpetual intoxication," or something like that. I think it's fun living with little regret. One day, it might get old or cause some troble, but not today.
