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How to determine if a kids injury is serious or not

It’s not everytime they cry it’s only if they get injured and you’re unsure if it’s serious because they are screaming but you can’t tell if they are overreacting or not

And before anyone thinks if a kid is screaming it’s not an over reaction

Kids don’t have experience or pain tolerance we do

This also applies to emotional pain.

     I’ve read in old interviews with Milt Khal’s fellow animators that he did the swaggle to purposefully show off. Moving the head in 3-d space is an exceptionally hard thing to do but Khal upped the level of difficulty to a place many animators wouldn’t go.      Not only are they all doing the swaggle you’ll notice they are all TALKING while they are doing it. This is back in the days where you had to use a timing sheet to pace your animation and a head swaggle doesn’t work if its too slow or too fast so he had to figure out the right speed so it looked natural while the character finishes what they have to say while not interfering with the distinct mouth shapes.       Not only did Khal do it without any shifting weight problems or timing issues he would often do it while moving the rest of the body. This isn’t his signature move just because he was good at it.This is his signature move because he was one of the only people skilled enough to DO IT AT ALL.

Every time I see shit like this, I think back to the kid who saw me crying the night trump was elected and said “don’t worry, it’s not like they’ll actually deport naturalized immigrants” in response to my worries about my family (Indian immigrants). “Don’t worry, it’s not like they’ll actually take away gay rights” in response to my worries about myself.

Redemption arcs are hard and Zuko’s was successful for a couple of reasons: