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hurbledr · 2016-09-18 · Original thread
>They complain about the shape of someone's arms in Street Fighter? Who cares about realism, these characters can shoot fireballs from their hands.

Well, the whole point is to make them shoot fireballs out of their hands in a convincing fashion. So having the non-fantastic elements of the animation be convincing is especially important.

Hayoa Miyazaki's writings in this book https://www.amazon.com/Starting-Point-1979-1996-Hayao-Miyaza... explain the need for realism in animation far better than I can.

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