#dancat

Thetic legs (literally now being able to “walk away” from the bad relationship) but I see how that could be implying people in wheelchairs do not have self-respect. Do you have any ideas that might make this better? I had thought maybe having the mc getting prosthetics earlier in the story, so it’s not the biggest change they go through before getting the courage to leave the hero, but I’m not sure. (2/2)

Isn’t game development exclusively for games while computer animation is broader, since it includes things like movies, advertisements, modeling?

(this is my most educated guess as I’m currently studying computer animation in college and self-studying game art for fun)

Sorry, I meant "game art" which is almost the same thing as computer animation, but a lot of the difference comes from what it's being made for, how it's being made, and how it’s rigged for animation.

For instance, computer animation in movies and advertisements are specifically animated so, unless it’s put on a loop, it only happens at a specific time in the “timeline” and without input from the audience. Let’s say that in Moana when Maui throws into the ocean. We, as the audience, cannot do anything to prevent or cause the actual action and it will always happen at the same time within the timeline.

In a game, almost everything can be put into a constant loop at no specific time because a lot of things that happen in a game are often designed to be user-driven. 

For instance, if the player makes their character jump, the model is supposed to stop its “standby” loop, transition into the jump, and then transition back into its “standby”. At the same time, the objects around the character are often expected to react to the character jumping, ex: grass being pushed away or dust appearing when the character lands. These actions are driven by the player, and can be repeated or prevented as many times as we are able to.

I say all this, knowing full well the differences.