Up in Arms

[tikific]

How it would all work anatomically.





Since a couple people have asked about this, I wanted to share images included in the Lilo & Stitch art book. (You can click to embiggen.) As you might know, the character Stitch has a pair of retractable arms, so one of the animators decided to sketch out how that might work.



Chris Sanders mentions in the DVD documentary that he was mildly squicked by all this. I prefer to think Ganesh does it with "magic," especially because I've implied he has more than one pair of extra arms (if you look at images of the Hindu gods, they can have a dozen arms sticking out back there).

Comments

[sike-saner.livejournal.com]

Drawings of weird skeletons are awesome! I like seeing speculation as to how this kind of stuff would work. Tis fascinating. :3

[tikific.livejournal.com]

I love the fact that an animator was so obsessive he had to work out the anatomy! Those Disney guys are just awesome. Something I've still not seen equalled in the modern computer animation was the cool way Stitch moved when he's in his 4-armed form and scurrying up the walls or whatever.