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

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool--the scapulae fold out of the way when he retracts his arms!

In some of the Indian art, you see the multi-armed gods and goddesses with the arms "coming out of the same hole," so to speak--but this makes sense!

[tikific.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've also seen representations where the arms seem to be coming from behind their backs. May have been they used models of people standing behind, holding out their arms. ARMS DON'T WORK THAT WAY!!!

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

There was a M&Ms commercial from sometime in the early 1970s, possibly late 1960s, that had a multi-armed goddess eating M&Ms from most of her many hands, and they did it with a bunch of women all sitting behind each other. A search of YouTube fails to turn it up, however.

[tikific.livejournal.com]

I remember a commercial for SOMETHING where you saw gods and goddesses with bazillion arms. I should probably grab one of those Avatar books, because they supposedly worked out the skeletal system of this weird double armed creatures.