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AksaraKishou
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Kim, your Chiropractor must be Godly from all this engagement carrying.
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Shay Guy
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I wonder if anyone's gone over footage from the movies to measure whether, and how much, they fudge gravitational acceleration for Eva scenes.
Like, an Eva 80 meters tall should theoretically take a little over 4 seconds to fall its own height from a stationary stop. And if its center of gravity is, I dunno, 45 meters off the ground, and it quickly pulls in its limbs so that the soles of its feet are 10 meters below its center of gravity (assuming a crouching posture), then its feet would be lifted off the ground for the amount of time it takes to fall 35 meters, or 2.672 seconds. Like a 2-meter human in 1/40 gravity. (You can extend that analogy further to imagine an Eva in a vacuum with Earth gravity jumping with a velocity of almost 400 mph, 20 times its height straight up, taking 18 seconds to reach its peak and another 18 to fall, taking off and landing.) Big ol' nerd that he is, I'm sure Anno worked those numbers out decades ago. But while including some of that realism is useful for conveying size and weight, trying to go all the way with it is a recipe for making fights slow and boring -- it's the same as the square-cube law. So I can't help but wonder how Khara (and Gainax back in the days of Eva TV) goes about striking that balance. I'm sure other mecha anime, and the likes of Pacific Rim, have to answer the same question. |
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Multi-Facets
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Now that's devotion to the craft. Wow.
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