Rikku’s design features a massive, low-hanging ponytail. In a "hard" dance animation (think 140 BPM footwork), the primary skeleton moves violently. Secondary motion (hair physics) must be simulated separately. Most amateur "hard" animations fail because the ponytail either clips through her back or lags unrealistically behind the head movement.
The animator, a woman named Sena with caffeine shakes and a deadlined soul, cracked her knuckles. She wasn't controlling Rikku with a joystick. She was Rikku. For the next eight hours, every tendon, every flick of her braid, every manic grin would be mapped onto the girl who could steal your sphere grid and your heart. Dancing animation rikku hard
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