Outline for Second Term Paper

Introduction:

• Animation is a pliable medium that allows the intense distortion of the real worlds physics for the sake of entertainment. 
• Often in animation, there are actions that have disproportional reactions from the amount of force put into the action.
• Violates Newton's 2nd Law of Motion.
• F=MA
• The amount of force produced in these actions are disproportional to the amount of acceleration the characters utilize.
• As the acting force upon an object is increased, the acceleration is increased.
• Sometimes these disproportional actions are subtly hidden away, other times they are laid bare to evoke a certain response from the audience.
• This is often applied in a serious or comedic way.

Body Paragraphs:

Asura's Wrath (2012)

• Introduce Asura's Wrath
• Violation of physics are often applied in video games to create extravagant worlds to entertain the player.
• Asura's Wrath: Main character of over the top 2012 video game, Asura's Wrath, is a multi-armed demi-god, whose uppercut has the ability to carry the victim to the moon. 
• Over the top violation of physics that creates comedy.

Attack on Titan (2013)

• Very often exhibited in 2D animation as a way to break away from the reality of live action.
• Sasha Braus is a glutton who was denied her daily meal for breaking rules in the military training. When in the presence of food, she lunges to snatch it away.
• She is only crouched for a moment (around 2-3 frames), and even then, there is no way for her to lunge across the screen based off of this.
• Lacks appropriate push off force to travel the distance she did.
• Another case of violation of physics that creates comedy and builds character's personality.  

Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children (2005)

• At the climax of the movie, the hero named Cloud, is launched hundreds of feet higher into the sky to fight a dragon.
• Already takes impressive and unobtainable leg strength to jump around 10 stories, 
• Friends throw Cloud up the height of a sky scraper with their bare hands.
• With the amount of force needed to throw another human that high,and realistically their bodies would not be able to withstand the force.
• Despite falling a few hundred feet after slaying the dragon, he lands as gracefully as a cat.

Conclusion: 

Animation is a powerful medium because of it's ability to twist the rules of physics to evoke a feeling whether it is serious or comedic in nature. The worlds that are created as so fantastic and wondrous that we often neglect to notice these blatant violations of real world physics simply because they are entertaining. Yet we believe it because animation is a pliable medium, able to shape itself to whatever the creator needs it to be.