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No Flow in CGI

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No Flow in CGI	comment	In old or low-end CGI, the characters will never wear loose garments, have long hair or include anything that might flow or rustle in wind or when moving. This is because accurately simulating flowing hair and fabric requires two extremely computationally expensive things: a very high polygon count that can translate into smoothly curved surfaces and individual strands of hair, and computational fluid dynamics to accurately simulate the material's motion as well as the air itself. As a result, early CGI software and hardware limitations for smaller animation studios made anything other than clunky, uncanny valley-inspiring graphics impossible. Even when technical limits and costs are slowly being pushed back, it's still hard and costly to simulate nowadays, especially in video games, where maintaining 60 FPS means there's only 16 milliseconds to calculate all that. To circumvent these limitations, authors and graphic artists had to make a few concessions and stylistic choices. Such as: Girls and women would have short hair and wear skintight gear. When they did have long hair, it would be done up in buns or heavily "moussed", becoming an immobile block. Films, TV episodes, or entire series would take place in settings whose inhabitants naturally lacked loose garments and billowing hair. For example, being plastic toys, computer programs, vegetables, robots that turn into animals, or ants. All loose fabrics will be inert, either by being drawn taut or by never having a breeze/character move them. This can lead to things like, say, never showing a character sitting in bed with the covers up, and if they do get out of bed, then simply cutting away while they move the covers. Averting this trope has long been a Holy Grail for CGI animators, which can lead to trouble. A lot of instances of flowing hair or gowns end up flowing too much, taking attention from anything else in the scene, like Dr. Ross' hair in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, or Nariko's in Heavenly Sword. When flowing is done right, it either is unambiguously the centerpiece of the scene, or doesn't call attention to itself but rather reinforces a viewer's immersion. This trope is why A Space Marine Is You is still so extremely prevalent: It's easier to model and animate a bald guy (or better yet, always helmeted) wearing an armored spacesuit than it is trying to create an Elegant Gothic Lolita from Harajuku. Just imagine the processing power required to handle the delicate and intricate clothes that flow in a Dramatic Wind... or when running and fighting. In the modern day, however, aversions of this trope have become increasingly common to the point of ubiquity — film animators have spent decades perfecting the ability to render hair and cloth physics, and even low budget animation has improved in this aspect, with many off-the-shelf programs including physics engines in their toolkits. The place you're most likely to see straight examples in the present day is in video games. While video game graphics rapidly improve with each generation, hair and cloth are still aspects that are difficult to realistically render in real time. Most game engines have rudimentary solutions in place, and some come closer than others, but on the whole, they still can't quite reach the level of detail seen in pre-rendered animation. To be fair, in real life a lot of people's hair doesn't move much, unless they're in strong wind or fully submerged. But Reality Is Unrealistic and less cool, and besides, how else would the CGI animators show off their skills and technology (and their budget; flowing in CGI can get expensive)? For another approach to averting this trope, see Jiggle Physics.
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No Flow in CGI / int_1a4b3ea2	comment	Digimon: In Digimon Tamers, Renamon was the only one of the three leads whose evolution Stock Footage was composed of traditional cel animation at every stage. Not coincidentally, Renamon is also the only one of the three who has lots of thick fluffy fur in one stage, billowy robes in another stage, and luxurious long hair in the final stage. Meanwhile, Guilmon and Terriermon have smooth fur and much more robotic higher stages, lending them well to CGI (though Dukemon/Gallantmon's cape does look alright, for the three seconds it's around). Digimon X-Evolution: Though they did give Omegamon and Dukemon their signature badass capes, they're awkwardly animated to a fairly visible extent. Similarly, DORUmon's fur.
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No Flow in CGI / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: Dragon Age: Origins suffers from this in typical BioWare fashion, made worse by the possibility to give long beards to the characters. They are all the same length and attached to a hard point a bit above the solar plexus of the model. This leads to a lot of clipping, with the tips plunging into heavy armour, or the beard stretching elastically between chin and torso whenever a character turns their head during dialogue. In Dragon Age II BioWare started to address this by having hair move subtlety during conversation, cutscenes or when just running about (although compare the Arishok's long hair in the trailer to the game). The beards remain as stiff as ever though. Dragon Age: Inquisition goes back to square one again, most likely due to the engine shift. All the available hairstyles for the inquisitor remain frozen in place, even the longer ones. The exception is Morrigan and Sera, whose bangs move slightly during conversations.
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No Flow in CGI / int_1c029994	comment	In Gravity, Sandra Bullock has short hair because she spends almost the entire movie in zero gravity.
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No Flow in CGI / int_1c418c71	comment	EverQuest II averts this if an option is enabled — however, like the rest of the engine, this is not efficient and requires high-end hardware to enable unless you want your framerate to drop through the floor. With the option disabled, clothing just kind of wraps around the body.
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No Flow in CGI / int_1cc8e29f	comment	Destiny seems dead set on averting this. Notably Hunters and Warlocks are given capes and coats respectively that flap around as they move. A good example is a Hunter on a Sparrow, as the cloak will billow in the breeze as the Hunter zooms around everywhere.
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No Flow in CGI / int_1fc3ec4d	comment	In Rock Band, there are no guitar straps in the animations because of this. The guitars still act like the straps are there, just invisible. The mo-cap people wore guitar straps and nobody bothered to adjust the models for it. Also, at least one of the potential hair models for female rockers will give them pigtails made of concrete.
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No Flow in CGI / int_21a4e905	comment	Monster Buster Club follows the CGI standard of characters having blocks for hair and tight clothes. However, it also subverts somewhat the trope with the hair not being static but waving along with movements (especially the bangs, locks or tips).
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No Flow in CGI / int_23553960	comment	Thanks to the new FOX Engine, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain this trope is averted, as can be seen in the opening to Ground Zeroes with Skullface's rain coat and Snake's new scarf-laden outfit, complete with trailing belt that follows him like a tail.
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No Flow in CGI / int_23d2ea71	comment	Donkey Kong Country altered King K. Rool's long cape from the games into a comedically short one that goes just past his shoulders. Besides that, Dixie's ponytail was shortened, Candy's shoulder-length hair was changed to an updo, and all of the Kritters' tails minus Klump's and Krusha's were removed. And even then, those don't move either.
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No Flow in CGI / int_265fb4f1	comment	Hyrule Warriors gives Link a long blue Scarf of Asskicking, the only purpose of which seems to be waving and fluttering all over the place with full cloth physics.
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No Flow in CGI / int_26674ed5	comment	Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty also averts this with Raiden's hair, though it doesn't seem to have much weight so it looks a bit unrealistic.
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No Flow in CGI / int_279cd0b8	comment	One of the trope's first widespread sights was in Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures. Whenever the characters entered the virtual Questworld, they would wear form-fitting armor instead of clothes, and due to the animation techniques, hair would look like a sculpted helmet, flow be damned.
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No Flow in CGI / int_27ca66c1	comment	In The Future Is Wild, some hairy mammals are featured early on, but they quickly go extinct in the later segments, resulting in the world being populated by computer-friendlier creatures with smooth skin such as fish, insects, or cephalopods.
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No Flow in CGI / int_2a04866b	comment	Guild Wars plays this straight with most of the outfits for the player characters, with the exception of the capes that signal the player's guild which have realistic cloth simulation animation. The longer female styles and accessories in later campaigns (see Dervishes and Ritualists) do move, with the exception of that one high-ponytail look used by Necromancers and Rangers. But the Dervish skirts can be cone-like and a particular (across-the-board) curled, bouncy ponytail has hilarious effects when dancing.
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No Flow in CGI / int_2c71840f	comment	Lara's trademark ponytail in the original Tomb Raider was absent outside FMVs due to technical limitations. From Tomb Raider II onward, however, her ponytail was present and had its very own physics engine, making it blow in wind (at different degrees depending on her surroundings!), collide with Lara's body and even float on the surface of water. Nowadays the physics are a bit dodgy due to the different engine — one could play a Drinking Game and take a sip every time Lara's hair goes straight through her neck.
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No Flow in CGI / int_2cc4abd9	comment	When Pixar produced Monsters, Inc., they'd developed software models that could make Sully's fur look fluffy, stiff, or windswept where necessary. However, a bit of toilet paper stuck to Mike's foot took the longest time to get right. Even the fur came with a price; to fully render Sully's 2.3 million individual hairs, it took the software 11-12 hours per frame. That means that every second that Sully is on screen took up to twelve days to render.
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No Flow in CGI / int_2d316bc0	comment	Averted in some instances, yet played straight in others, in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012). The Turtles' bandannas are often seen flapping around in the breeze during combat. However, Shredder never wears his cape during battle, though this is justified as they can be a liability in battle.
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No Flow in CGI / int_30940081	comment	Lampshaded in Grand Theft Auto V on the in-game TV show Fame or Shame when a singer prepares to perform a Cliché Storm power ballad, complete with a wind machine, but Lazlow tells him that the wind machine is broken.
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No Flow in CGI / int_33dd1d90	comment	In Half-Life 2, Alyx's hair is very short and Dr. Mossman's is pulled into a tight bun.
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No Flow in CGI / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: Characters have limited movement of the hair, something that is very noticeable for long hair. Although it will billow freely enough, it does so as a block, sometimes making even long hair seem like a solid clump rather than freeflowing strands of hair. Although the CGI improves with every volume, and changes engine completely between Volumes 3 and 4, hair continues to flow as a block rather than as loose strands.
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No Flow in CGI / int_36395288	comment	In the Kirby series, most of Meta Knight's 3D appearances avoided this by constantly depicting him with his wings and never with his cape, unless it's wrapped around him. The Super Smash Bros. series are the only games where he's constantly shown with his cape.
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No Flow in CGI / int_36a99a80	comment	You can see the technology improving in the Shrek movies. In the first movie, it took them a lot of effort to make Fiona's hair sway, and Shrek is bald. The second movie used a new engine for handling hair, and they lampshade it by having a shot where Prince Charming takes of his helmet to show his incredibly smooth and wavy hair. Shrek 3 added the ability to model longer flowing hair, and they used that to render the different hair styles of the princesses. In Shrek Forever After, there is a scene where Fiona appears as a warrior and you see her long curly hair swaying in the wind. Here's a video that shows the evolution of Fiona's hair. One of the outtakes for the first movie showcased an animation error where Donkey's fur looked less like a donkey's and more like an absurdly-fluffy bunny.
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No Flow in CGI / int_39381802	comment	Earwig and the Witch: The film's attempt to emulate the Ghibli style in a more traditional CGI style has a flat and plastic looking appearance, mostly obvious with the facial expressions and Thomas being completely smooth.
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No Flow in CGI / int_3967984f	comment	Most of the characters in Dead Space have short or no hair, except Kendra, whose long hair moves more like a piece of stiff fabric.
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No Flow in CGI / int_39fe00f1	comment	Dragon Age: Inquisition goes back to square one again, most likely due to the engine shift. All the available hairstyles for the inquisitor remain frozen in place, even the longer ones. The exception is Morrigan and Sera, whose bangs move slightly during conversations.
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No Flow in CGI / int_3ac755dd	comment	This is why Belle's hair was usually in a ponytail in Beauty and the Beast (though her dress twirls during the song "Beauty and the Beast"), and why Kiki's hair is shorter in Kiki's Delivery Service than the book that inspired it.
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No Flow in CGI / int_3b9332bc	comment	Digimon X-Evolution: Though they did give Omegamon and Dukemon their signature badass capes, they're awkwardly animated to a fairly visible extent. Similarly, DORUmon's fur.
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No Flow in CGI / int_3e53d9f0	comment	Shadow Raiders is set in space, with aliens made of rock, magma, who are insects, reptiles or robots. So no-one even has hair, nor wear billowy clothes. Only the reptiles of Bone have moving membranes/ridges on their backs, which do move along with them. A few rare scenes features static fabrics in the throne room of planet Fire.
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No Flow in CGI / int_3f9e415	comment	In the Saints Row series, there is a wide variety of long hairstyles to choose from, ranging from corn rows to dreads to ponytails to straight, elbow-length hair. Every single one of these styles is as rigid and stiff as a plank of wood. It's particularly noticeable in a cutscene in the second game, where your character is thrown around during a fight with a rival gang leader — his/her hair sticks perfectly to him/her the whole time, no matter how long it is. Averted in the third game and onwards, where hair (and a limited selection of clothing) bounces and flops around along with the character.
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No Flow in CGI / int_43f52aa9	comment	In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Fallout 3 (which both run on the Gambryo engine), hair is kept above the neck short, even for female characters, to avert this trope. The PC versions allow for mods, and longer hair — but the hair doesn't move at all. When the player drops into a crouch for sneaking, the hair clips through the character's body. Despite beds and sleeping both being gameplay mechanics, you will never see a character actually get into a bed. They simply lie on top of the covers—when the bed has covers to lie on, anyway, which they often don't. Skyrim has a problem with flowing clothes. This is most noticable on the Nightingale Armor, where the cape seems to be anchored at the hip, causing it to unnaturally bend with the PC's body movements rather than actual flow. Similarly any dress or robe in the game will cling onto the legs of the wearer as they walk, rather than realistically wave. When switching to 3rd person displays this trope is entirely in effect for most of your character's gear, especially any cloaks, which sit motionlessly upon your back even while moving. For Skyrim's Dawnguard DLC, physics-enabled cloaks were added... but only used on a single (major) NPC. You'll never obtain one of them, as a player. Even if you do get your hands on it through modding, it's prone to glitching out without (sometimes even with) the correct settings in the game's configuration files. This is evident in Fallout: New Vegas, due to the Badass Longcoat of the Rangers being the game's Iconic Outfit: it never blows or billows the way you'd expect a coat to do, even in a Mojave sandstorm, and it also seems to be glued to the legs based on how it moves when the wearer walks. Fallout 4, which runs on an updated version of the Gamebryo engine, averts this with clothing and hair physics on all characters, including the Player Character.
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No Flow in CGI / int_4540b0b2	comment	All female characters in Spider-Man: The New Animated Series have their hair either in ponytails or cut short, including MJ, who rarely has short hair in the comics. Peter Parker was also supposed to wear baggier clothes to hide his super-strong musculature but he wears moderately tight clothing in the final product.
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No Flow in CGI / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV has hair of all kinds and there's several hairstyles that are long and flowing. Robes, skirts, and poofy sleeves are also common. However, the physics in the game are very basic; shoulder length hair and some skirts or robes do move with the player's movement and can even flutter in the wind, but it's very basic movement. Hair that goes past the shoulders don't move at all and a lot of long sleeves don't flow either, which makes them look like someone put too much starch in the wash. Clipping is also extremely common with armor that has a big collar if there's long hair involved and skirts and robes can cause your feet to clip through as you run.
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No Flow in CGI / int_49ad83ee	comment	In World of Warcraft, capes do flow, but not particularly well. It's especially obvious when the character has a tail, like the Tauren and the Draenei do. Then the cape sways in perfect sync with the tail, but doesn't fall properly at the end of the tail. They also don't wrap around or cover the body, but fall straight down the back like a towel tied around the neck. Capes also clip horribly while riding a raptor mount. Hair also deserves a mention, as aside from one or two pony-tails per race and gender, none of the hair in the game moves much regardless of length or style. The reason is, of course, that the capes and hairstyles aren't using any sort of physics, they're simply running through animations like the rest of the character model. The cape is attached to the characters at a fixed length and distance, more like a shell rather than flowing as in City of Heroes. However, the Pandaren which are now playable avert this. While compared to other games they're still rather static, looking at the capes or hair on a Pandaren compared to any other race is quite impressive for such an old engine. The new models avert these problems to some degree. Long hairstyles still don't quite look realistic, but they seem greased rather than gelled: which at least makes sense given the Medieval-Fantasy setting. Cape animation has improved considerably, and characters often have other animated pieces as well. also, they fixed some of the clipping issues (not all though). For example capes now jiggle in response to vertical movement: such as a female night elf's idle bounce.
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No Flow in CGI / int_4b114f07	comment	Spawn (1997): Unlike in the comics, where Spawn almost always has his giant iconic cape on, the film saves it for only a few short scenes, each only a few seconds long, because it was computer-generated, and having a giant billowing cape for long periods was simply infeasible for 90s CGI. Which is probably a good thing, since the fact the cape is digital is incredibly obvious.
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No Flow in CGI / int_4ffdeb3e	comment	The PS3 version of MLB: The Show 07 demonstrates why this trope exists. The game tries to model wind effects on flags and player jerseys, but it only contributes to an Unintentional Uncanny Valley feeling.
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No Flow in CGI / int_50b9086a	comment	In Ready Jet Go!, most of the characters wear pants, and most of the females' hair only reaches their shoulders because animating flowing skirts/hair would be difficult on this show's seemingly low-budget in the earlier episodes. Lillian wears a dress, but it's very still. Mindy's pigtails are an exception, as they're often seen moving and bouncing with the slightest movements of her head, especially in the later episodes (starting with "Solar System Bake-Off"), which all have a higher budget, so all the characters have a better flow.
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No Flow in CGI / int_5284ef74	comment	Batman: Vengeance: Batman's cape zigzags this. It moves independently of Batman himself so that it can act realistically when he's running, climbing, or grappling. The downside of this is that it flaps around wildly whenever he's standing still, and it looks about as realistic as the cloth capes on the old Kenner action figures.
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No Flow in CGI / int_53a73ca0	comment	The CGI animation of Star Wars: The Clone Wars was initially unfortunately notorious for this. A common criticism was that the characters' hair looked like it was chiseled out of wood. Especially visible on Obi-Wan, whose beard is so rigid it behaves like an extension of his jaw. Aside from having unmoving hair, many of the Jedi wore armored cloaks in the first seasons so the animators didn't have to animate the flowing robes of the live-action theatrical films. As The Clone Wars progressed, new models for the main characters were introduced that replaced the rigid armor with flexible robes. By the third season, the animation of The Clone Wars looked better than it did back in its pilot film, with rustling clothes and waving hair aplenty.
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No Flow in CGI / int_53f3150	comment	Dinosaur Planet: At one point, two feathery raptors are adrift at sea. This is one of the only scenes in the whole series that portrays the animals with puppets instead of CGI, probably because it was far too difficult to depict the shaggy dinosaurs as being wet and matted with computer effects on their budget. This is very noticeable when the shots change between the puppet and the CG model, as the difference between the textures is night and day.
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No Flow in CGI / int_5425ce75	comment	Hardly anyone in the Grand Theft Auto franchise has anything other than short hair. All of the protagonists, from Claude to Luis have either short or buzzed haircuts and even though Carl Johnson can get his hair cut in various ways, you never get anything that would sway in the wind. Lampshaded in Grand Theft Auto V on the in-game TV show Fame or Shame when a singer prepares to perform a Cliché Storm power ballad, complete with a wind machine, but Lazlow tells him that the wind machine is broken.
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No Flow in CGI / int_5436b1a9	comment	Senran Kagura has very stiff hair animation, but notably for having such a bouncy cast, also applies to this to the girls' chests, eschewing Jiggle Physics in favor of canned animations based on what else the model is doing. In a case of Tropes Are Not Bad, this (and the Puni Plush art style) actually makes it look less ridiculous than, say, Dead or Alive.
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No Flow in CGI / int_57f19f4d	comment	In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, a second Toad (officially known as "Blue Toad") was used as the fourth playable character instead of Princess Peach in order to avoid programming the physics for her dress, as well as to have every character play the same way. This carries over to New Super Mario Bros. U (which, ironically, replaced him in its Nintendo Switch update with Toadette, who can transform into a facsimile of Peach).
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No Flow in CGI / int_584365d4	comment	Amazingly averted with all the animated scenes in Melody. The developers did a really good job of making even the girlsâ€™ hair flow during sex scenes.
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No Flow in CGI / int_5908ee91	comment	Skyrim has a problem with flowing clothes. This is most noticable on the Nightingale Armor, where the cape seems to be anchored at the hip, causing it to unnaturally bend with the PC's body movements rather than actual flow. Similarly any dress or robe in the game will cling onto the legs of the wearer as they walk, rather than realistically wave. When switching to 3rd person displays this trope is entirely in effect for most of your character's gear, especially any cloaks, which sit motionlessly upon your back even while moving.
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No Flow in CGI / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear: This happened to Solid Snake in the original Metal Gear Solid for PSX, whose design includes a long, flowing bandanna. It slowed the engine down so much, though, that the ends were eventually cut off. In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, the bandanna tails follow his motions almost perfectly and even flutter noisily when he opens a door to the storm on the deck outside, and was exaggerated by the tails on the Infinity Bandanna being as long as Snake is tall, giving an impression a little like a ninja scarf. The Video Game Remake The Twin Snakes implemented the bandana as originally intended. Snake's skintight outfit might be an example of this trope. The original plan was to put him in combat fatigues, but they didn't have the technology at the time to realistically move them in the wind of the storm Snake's part of the game was set in. It worked out well enough, though, because it led to a "Stupid, sexy Snake" situation. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty also averts this with Raiden's hair, though it doesn't seem to have much weight so it looks a bit unrealistic. In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Snake's clothes react convincingly well to wind etc. Thanks to the new FOX Engine, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain this trope is averted, as can be seen in the opening to Ground Zeroes with Skullface's rain coat and Snake's new scarf-laden outfit, complete with trailing belt that follows him like a tail.
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No Flow in CGI / int_59cbd290	comment	Two Best Friends Play: Pat comments on this trope in several videogame playthroughs. It's hard to realistically animate a character underneath bedcovers, so Pat draws attention to all the cutscenes with characters sleeping on top of the covers (or without any covers at all). On the rare occasion that a game does shows someone sleeping under the covers, Pat will point out how unrealistic the covers look. While watching the Optional Sexual Encounter in Heavy Rain, Pat quips, "They have sex behind the bed so they don't have to get underneath the covers."
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No Flow in CGI / int_59da62aa	comment	This is evident in Fallout: New Vegas, due to the Badass Longcoat of the Rangers being the game's Iconic Outfit: it never blows or billows the way you'd expect a coat to do, even in a Mojave sandstorm, and it also seems to be glued to the legs based on how it moves when the wearer walks.
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No Flow in CGI / int_5a1506e6	comment	In Eternal Sonata, characters like Polka wear beautiful, bulky layered dresses which remain static and unmoving in all weather, and the characters run around with their arms at a perpetual 45-degree angle to avoid having to interact with the fabric.
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No Flow in CGI / int_5b3356f8	comment	Averted with a vengeance in Turning Red: Not only does every single character's hair flow with every movement they make, the hair is shown being affected by windnote which happens a lot since Mei generates her own, other characters' touchesnote which also happens a lot since the main characters are teen girls, other characters' hairnote like when they hug and fabricsnote like clothes, bedding, and upholstery. Pixar seems to have gone out of their way to show off how much they've come in averting this trope with this film. They do everything the trope description says not to do and yet none of it feels unnatural. Mei's panda form takes this to another level of complexity as her fur is animated to match her emotional state in addition to all of the above. The climax cranks this up to 11 with seven dynamically interacting characters each with highly detailed full body fur in the foreground at the same time.
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No Flow in CGI / int_5fc1f6df	comment	Any video game based on Spawn tends to hide his iconic cape unless it's in a cutscene. His chains are also absent most of the time due to this trope. However, thanks to the advancements in technology, his guest appearance in Mortal Kombat 11 gives him the full package of powers during gameplay, cape and chains included.
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No Flow in CGI / int_629cd094	comment	Dragon Age: Origins suffers from this in typical BioWare fashion, made worse by the possibility to give long beards to the characters. They are all the same length and attached to a hard point a bit above the solar plexus of the model. This leads to a lot of clipping, with the tips plunging into heavy armour, or the beard stretching elastically between chin and torso whenever a character turns their head during dialogue.
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No Flow in CGI / int_6338f061	comment	Any of the long hairstyles in The Movies notably don't gel with particular animations such as sharp head turns. They remain rigid while the rest of the head moves. None of the long styles ever go longer than the middle of the back presumably for this reason. This shows up in some of the outfits with long skirts and dresses - especially when the models are riding horses.
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No Flow in CGI / int_66a1dcea	comment	Tomb Raider Lara's trademark ponytail in the original Tomb Raider was absent outside FMVs due to technical limitations. From Tomb Raider II onward, however, her ponytail was present and had its very own physics engine, making it blow in wind (at different degrees depending on her surroundings!), collide with Lara's body and even float on the surface of water. Nowadays the physics are a bit dodgy due to the different engine — one could play a Drinking Game and take a sip every time Lara's hair goes straight through her neck. Tomb Raider (2013), however, goes out of its way to avert this. On seventh-gen consoles and low graphics settings on PCs, Lara's hair moves fairly realistically, although it's wrapped in a tight ponytail. High-end PCs have an option called TressFX, which seems to render almost every single hair on Lara's head as it flutters about in the breeze...at the cost of about half your video memory. And since TressFX is an AMD program routine, it doesn't run well with nVidia graphics cards. It's standard in the Definitive Edition remake. Rise of the Tomb Raider continues to uses the impressive hair physics on current-gen consoles and PC, to the point that Lara's hair actually moves a bit too much to be realistic.
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No Flow in CGI / int_6a8ce345	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: Avatar: The Last Airbender: Not CGI, but Katara's "hair loopies" were opted over overly-long hair because they were easier to animate. Similarly, in the Sequel Series The Legend of Korra early artwork for Kya showed that she was supposed to have dreadlocks. In the final product she just has straight hair because it was easier to animate.
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No Flow in CGI / int_6ac55ec7	comment	In Dungeons & Dragons: Scourge of Worlds, a CGI choose-your-path DVD adventure, which used the iconic 3rd Edition D&D characters, all the characters used were fairly straight interpretations of their original artwork, with the exception of Mialee, the elf wizard. The reason is that her original design had a huge mop of hair that extended to her knees. The CGI version had a small knot that extended off the back of her head.
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No Flow in CGI / int_6b85085e	comment	Mortal Kombat Made painfully clear in Mortal Kombat 4 with Sonya's frozen ponytail. Later games, made for more powerful systems, managed to avert this: almost everyone has some part of their hair or clothes that flaps freely (in fact, Goro and Kintaro have front flaps added to their Loin Cloths in later games for probably this exact reason). They do occasionally clip inside the character models, though. Inverted with Shang Tsung: Much like he did in the first game, he was originally intended to have long flowing hair in Mortal Kombat 3, which used live-action motion captured actors for the character sprites, but it apparently caused problems, so he had a ponytail instead. In Deadly Alliance, his first appearance in 3D rendering, he had...long flowing hair. Admittedly, this was at the point where technology could accommodate for this, since he wasn't in 4.
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No Flow in CGI / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4, which runs on an updated version of the Gamebryo engine, averts this with clothing and hair physics on all characters, including the Player Character.
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No Flow in CGI / int_6c47db4e	comment	Dynasty Warriors and by extension Samurai Warriors had this in spades for most of their games (although it's improving with each iteration) where any character with a cape or long hair would have those parts of the character model freeze in a static horizontal position when moving forward, as noted however they are getting better with this.
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No Flow in CGI / int_6d10ab05	comment	Inverted with Shang Tsung: Much like he did in the first game, he was originally intended to have long flowing hair in Mortal Kombat 3, which used live-action motion captured actors for the character sprites, but it apparently caused problems, so he had a ponytail instead. In Deadly Alliance, his first appearance in 3D rendering, he had...long flowing hair. Admittedly, this was at the point where technology could accommodate for this, since he wasn't in 4.
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No Flow in CGI / int_6d10ab06	comment	Made painfully clear in Mortal Kombat 4 with Sonya's frozen ponytail. Later games, made for more powerful systems, managed to avert this: almost everyone has some part of their hair or clothes that flaps freely (in fact, Goro and Kintaro have front flaps added to their Loin Cloths in later games for probably this exact reason). They do occasionally clip inside the character models, though.
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No Flow in CGI / int_709a6827	comment	Don't Eat the Neighbours: Just about the only flowy aspect to any of the puppets are the ears on the rabbits, giving the impression that the puppet designs were optimized with being easy to render accurately in CG in mind.
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No Flow in CGI / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: Not CGI, but Katara's "hair loopies" were opted over overly-long hair because they were easier to animate.
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No Flow in CGI / int_73b74949	comment	The Borderlands series has played this straight for a majority of its history. Characters are either bald, short-haired, constantly wearing some form of headgear, or never take off their face-concealing helmets. This also extends to their wardrobe, where their outfits tend to lack anything that might realistically move about. The third game finally averted it completely where numerous things dangle and move independantly of what they're attached to. Notable examples include the long jacket that FL4K wears and Amara's ponytail.
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No Flow in CGI / int_747d9a6f	comment	Mostly straight in [PROTOTYPE]. Models are pretty static to the point where even chest-length hair appears stuck into place of female character models, making it look like rubber. Even the flow of Alex's jacket is scripted to animate only during certain actions.
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No Flow in CGI / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Even though there is little flow, there are ways to fake it, at least in the PlayStation/Nintendo 64/Sega Saturn era. If something was supposed to flow, like a dress, the designers would at least have it warp a little to show some animation, like Zelda's dresses in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Ganondorf's cape also animates quite well during the fight against him, although it clips through his defeat animation. Hyrule Warriors gives Link a long blue Scarf of Asskicking, the only purpose of which seems to be waving and fluttering all over the place with full cloth physics. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker has very impressive cloth simulation (for 2003) for clothing and hair and manages to avoid this trope for the most part. Sometimes, however, some flaws with the physics engine crop up, including a small flaw with how long, thin strings are handled. The trope is played straight with Medli, who has a long ponytail that is seemingly not affected by the wind, even though her hair moves when she is walking or running.
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No Flow in CGI / int_77682bb8	comment	In 2001's Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, 40% of the CGI effects were to make Aki's hair flow (and she definitely had a tendency to shake it around to let you know). Just about every other character has short hair at most.
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No Flow in CGI / int_792239e5	comment	Played straight in Tales of Symphonia. Particularly jarring with Colette, whose elbow-length hair was rigid as a board.
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No Flow in CGI / int_7988cb68	comment	Hair in the original Mass Effect trilogy has all of the bob and flow of a concrete sculpture. This is hilariously evident with Miranda in Mass Effect 2 and 3; unlike the military-haired characters of the rest of the game, Miranda has long, flowing, shoulder-length hair, but it's as stiff as a brick. It does kind of move, but only around the shoulders. Like so many other things, the third game's Citadel DLC pokes fun at this; Garrus complains about how long it takes Miranda to do her hair in the morning. This trope is also in effect with the "tears" characters would cry, which range from a pool below their eyes to two slicks running down their cheeks. No animations in between — it's quite a surprise to see someone suddenly look like they've been crying for ten minutes. It's especially jarring next to all the genuinely good graphics the game features, including stunning backgrounds. Mass Effect: Andromeda finally averts this trope for the first time in the series.
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No Flow in CGI / int_7e9d1a6c	comment	In Frozen, their main flow-related challenge was rendering heavy cloths such as velvet and wool in such a way that they still billow and swirl with appropriate grace. Elsa's glorious dress of ice flows quite well, especially with the giant trailing translucent snowflake cape behind her. Both Elsa and Anna wear their hair in braids, which also required some new programs on the part of the animators — namely, making braids that were clearly composed of three interwoven strands, instead of braids that are just lengthened, tactile blocks of hair (like Fiona or Astrid.) However, one short scene proved to be nearly impossible to animate: during the song "Let It Go," where Elsa takes down her hair and pulls her braid over her shoulder◊. The only way they could do the scene without having the model break was to cheat and have the braid phase through Elsa's arm instead of over it. The animators did a good job of making it barely noticeable, and those that did notice seemed to agree it was Worth It.
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No Flow in CGI / int_7f640c58	comment	Very common with mods for The Sims 2. Though creators of mods have improved tremendously since the old days, it's not uncommon for it to appear that the sims are using industrial strength hairspray and way too much starch in their laundry. Also, a lot of custom content creators try to fix this and end up with the hair having a gap under the neck, skirts with black areas under them, and even feet bending at the ankle (usually with high heels that are higher than what is usual in the game).
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No Flow in CGI / int_7f959890	comment	Barbie as Rapunzel's braid looks okay, but when she wears her hair loose, it looks like it's made of rubber. Semi-justifiable because, not only was the film released two years before Pixar perfected hair, but when Disney did their telling of the story, it took years and years to perfect the technology for all that hair. Barbie movies are very guilty of this. On the covers and the doll-lines, Barbie is always portrayed with long, wavy hair. In the movies themselves, her character's hair is almost always short, in a ponytail or a Prim and Proper Bun. Then again, the fanbase tends to prefer the more individual hairstyles Barbie has in the movies themselves, so it's probably more a problem about the cover artists being lazy.
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No Flow in CGI / int_8124a34e	comment	Barbie movies are very guilty of this. On the covers and the doll-lines, Barbie is always portrayed with long, wavy hair. In the movies themselves, her character's hair is almost always short, in a ponytail or a Prim and Proper Bun. Then again, the fanbase tends to prefer the more individual hairstyles Barbie has in the movies themselves, so it's probably more a problem about the cover artists being lazy.
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No Flow in CGI / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros.: In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, a second Toad (officially known as "Blue Toad") was used as the fourth playable character instead of Princess Peach in order to avoid programming the physics for her dress, as well as to have every character play the same way. This carries over to New Super Mario Bros. U (which, ironically, replaced him in its Nintendo Switch update with Toadette, who can transform into a facsimile of Peach). Averted in Super Mario 3D World, where Princess Peach is playable, as is Rosalina. Peach is playable in the mobile runner game Super Mario Run, which is stylized after the New Super Mario Bros series. Her dress however doesn't move as much as it does in Super Mario 3D World. The Mario series' relationship with this trope predates three-dimensional graphics: Mario's trademark cap was added because the developers didn't want to have to animate hair. The mustaches were also a result of not wanting to animate a face. This was also played straight with the original version of Bowser, who was actually depicted without hair in that game. However, he did have hair in the SNES remake.
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No Flow in CGI / int_8501afb1	comment	Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children has Sephiroth's hair and Red XIII's fur. While the former got more screen time as a key character, it was still stated to be very costly. Red XIII/Nanaki on the other hand got very little. Word of God also says that Cait Sith showed up riding Red XIII instead of his giant Moogle Doll thing because rendering that big thing (which was already established to be fur-covered as well) would have taken too much time out of other, more important parts of the movie. See the video game section below for more. In a similar vein, Tifa has long hair that goes to just above her knees in the original game. In the film, it's shortened to elbow length to make it easier to animate.
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No Flow in CGI / int_85a5a3b9	comment	Very obvious on the humans in Transformers: Prime; their hair hardly moves at all, giving the impression that they're wearing way too much hair gel.
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No Flow in CGI / int_86814cd2	comment	Final Fantasy IX has a cloth example in Princess Garnet's white dress, most memorably seen in the game's opening and closing FMVs. In the FMVs, the dress's motion flow is pretty natural, but in-game, the dress literally doesn't move. After speaking to the rest of the party at the beginning of Disc 3, Garnet steps backward and turns, and the dress stays the exact same shape. In fact, it doesn't seem like any part of her body or her clothes move at ALL in that dress, at least not below the waist.
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No Flow in CGI / int_869e463a	comment	This was partially why they abandoned the original art style. The film was originally supposed to look like a watercolor painting using the technique that was later used for shorts such as Paperman. However, it proved to be way too expensive and difficult, so it was changed to a more typical art style. Even today, the hardware is still in its early stages and it is hard to make use of outside of shorts.
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No Flow in CGI / int_86e041e3	comment	Second Life partially avoids this with animated hair and skirts available as purchased items. It still has clipping issues, but it does look okay most of the time. The default avatar hair ("slider hair") does not flow at all, nor does default avatar skirts. Also, most hair is created with either toruses, which are easy to bend into locks, or sculpties, which are user-defined shapes. Neither of these support the "Flexible Path" option. Hair in Second Life thus ranges from very well-done hair that doesn't flow, to somewhat crappy-looking hair that flows properly.
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No Flow in CGI / int_87599094	comment	In Luxo Jr., it was mentioned in the commentary that the cord bouncing up and down was the hardest thing to animate in the entire short. John Lasseter had to animate each jump by hand, and in his own words, "...it was painful."
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No Flow in CGI / int_876cd173	comment	Watch_Dogs averts this. Just look at Aiden's coat! They even managed to realistically make him put his hands in his pockets, something most animators would kill themselves trying to do.
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No Flow in CGI / int_88e691e3	comment	Frozen: In Frozen, their main flow-related challenge was rendering heavy cloths such as velvet and wool in such a way that they still billow and swirl with appropriate grace. Elsa's glorious dress of ice flows quite well, especially with the giant trailing translucent snowflake cape behind her. Both Elsa and Anna wear their hair in braids, which also required some new programs on the part of the animators — namely, making braids that were clearly composed of three interwoven strands, instead of braids that are just lengthened, tactile blocks of hair (like Fiona or Astrid.) However, one short scene proved to be nearly impossible to animate: during the song "Let It Go," where Elsa takes down her hair and pulls her braid over her shoulder◊. The only way they could do the scene without having the model break was to cheat and have the braid phase through Elsa's arm instead of over it. The animators did a good job of making it barely noticeable, and those that did notice seemed to agree it was Worth It. In Olaf's Frozen Adventure, the Happy Holidays Dresses Elsa and Anna wear have more natural movement than the previous installments. This applies even to the fur on Elsa's white fox collar.
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No Flow in CGI / int_8c9862c7	comment	Prince of Persia (2008) averts this when it comes to clothes; it is set in a windy desert, but everyone's clothes act realistically, like Elika's blouse shifting slightly but still clinging to her body. The Corruption and character hair, however, both play it straight.
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No Flow in CGI / int_8d31904f	comment	Peach is playable in the mobile runner game Super Mario Run, which is stylized after the New Super Mario Bros series. Her dress however doesn't move as much as it does in Super Mario 3D World.
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No Flow in CGI / int_909ca4b1	comment	ReBoot is set in a computer, so everyone wears skintight clothes. It wasn't until later seasons that female characters even had long hair.
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No Flow in CGI / int_91fedfaa	comment	The animators loved working on Walking with Dinosaurs because the animals they had to create were either scaly or had only short fuzz — however, they did get slammed quite a bit by the paleontologist community for not feathering their raptors (something now known for certain).note Feathered dinosaurs were already known at the time, with Sinosauropteryx having been described in 1996, more than three years before the series' premier, they continued to have featherless coelurosaurs even in the 2002/3 spin-off Chased by Dinosaurs, and more than a few former consultants for the series have since stated that facts and corrections they advocated for were ignored by the producers, with budget being the most likely explanation in this case. The only feathered CGI animal is Iberomesornis, which never appears in closeup. When fuzzy mammals needed to appear, hand puppets and even a live coati were used. Then came the sequel, Walking with Beasts, about prehistoric mammals, and they didn't laugh anymore. In the end, they settled for using guide hairs, single strands of hair whose animation the computer copied over and over until the entire animal got fully covered by it. This way, they only had to animate fewer hairs. The results may not be super realistic, but it at least spared them from crashing their systems.
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No Flow in CGI / int_93ef7a8c	comment	Starting in Super Smash Bros. Melee, the Super Smash Bros. series has a few features that blow in the wind (Link's cap, the Fire Emblem characters' capes, the princesses' skirts, etc.). It's obvious that they didn't put much effort into this, though — the capes frequently clip, and Peach and Zelda's hair act as single cohesive units. Notably, you can remove these objects in Debug Mode — including the skirts.
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No Flow in CGI / int_97e7606f	comment	In Alan Wake, Alan's shirts and tweed jacket behave very much like shirts and a tweed jacket — the hood bobs around, coattails and lapels flow in the wind, and the tweed pattern bends realistically.
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No Flow in CGI / int_9819631f	comment	Despite the technology only being a couple of years more advanced than for its forerunner, Beast Machines gave Blackarachnia a big clump of black hair in her robot mode. Thankfully, due to the way her forehead was designed, the animators didn't have to bother with the front. Then, there's also Nightscream's infamous floppy hair-streak. Essentially, although they are for the most part animated to look floppy, they look more like weird bits of flesh coming out of their head, as they never separate into strands.
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No Flow in CGI / int_98744614	comment	Brave seems hell-bent on defying this trope.◊ What's also noticeable is that the heroine has long, curly hair, which is animated realistically (rather than being a block with lines in it). Curly hair is very difficult to animate as not only does it sway, it bounces, unlike straight hair.
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No Flow in CGI / int_987ae286	comment	While Cars is a perfect example of the practical applications of this trope — it's much easier to render shiny cars than natural human skin and hair — it's actually a spectacular aversion on the whole, with shots of flowing waterfalls and riverways in Radiator Springs, and the tearaways near the beginning of the movie producing various realistic flames, which are especially impressive to anyone who knows how difficult realistic particle animation is.
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No Flow in CGI / int_9a02d243	comment	Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time averts this not on the characters themselves, but on the various tapestries, banners and curtains that you can run into and brush aside.
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No Flow in CGI / int_9aa7391c	comment	According to developers, some of the character design changes in Castlevania: Judgment were made due to this trope. One often-cited example is Shanoa's short hair and church hood, which was much less well received than her long flowing hair from Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia.
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No Flow in CGI / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: Several of the trainer classes in PokÃ©mon X and Y are shown with curly or wavy hair in their artwork, however their overworld models show them with straight hair. PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon is a bit better at this than its previous generation, but even then it keeps curls to a minimum.
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No Flow in CGI / int_a0ae46e	comment	Most human women that appear in early Pixar films wear pants or some other form of tight clothing. Bo Peep, who's one of the few exceptions to this rule, instead wears a very rigid cage skirt. A rare exception to this rule is a female patient in the dentist's waiting room near the end of Finding Nemo whom Nemo and the tank gang briefly mistake for Darla (whose legs underneath her skirt were fully visible in the fullscreen version, and only during her latter two appearances in the widescreen version, when she and her son are sitting).
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No Flow in CGI / int_a25325a5	comment	Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze: According to producer Kensuke Tanabe, the developers decided to take advantage of the Wii U's power by averting this, despite highly increased development time. The E3 2013 reveal of the game saw Satoru Iwata making a special point of calling attention to DK's new fur physics.
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No Flow in CGI / int_a2dee471	comment	The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker has very impressive cloth simulation (for 2003) for clothing and hair and manages to avoid this trope for the most part. Sometimes, however, some flaws with the physics engine crop up, including a small flaw with how long, thin strings are handled. The trope is played straight with Medli, who has a long ponytail that is seemingly not affected by the wind, even though her hair moves when she is walking or running.
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No Flow in CGI / int_a53dfb59	comment	Very egregious in movie-to-series adaptations like Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness and The Penguins of Madagascar, where the painstaking detail in each fur and feather for the animal characters in the movies is noticeably absent, replaced by smooth bodies and static clumps, like Alex's mane when he briefly appeared as a spirit guide to an amnesiac Skipper in one episode. For Kung Fu Panda, individual hairs are placed in, but they are so spaced apart or few between that it becomes very noticeable when using close-up shots.
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No Flow in CGI / int_a796bde8	comment	This happened to Solid Snake in the original Metal Gear Solid for PSX, whose design includes a long, flowing bandanna. It slowed the engine down so much, though, that the ends were eventually cut off. In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, the bandanna tails follow his motions almost perfectly and even flutter noisily when he opens a door to the storm on the deck outside, and was exaggerated by the tails on the Infinity Bandanna being as long as Snake is tall, giving an impression a little like a ninja scarf. The Video Game Remake The Twin Snakes implemented the bandana as originally intended.
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No Flow in CGI / int_a90d239a	comment	According to the folks at Double Fine, the original main character of Psychonauts, D'artanan, had a big, flowy hat that was "too awesome to animate".
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No Flow in CGI / int_a9f06cb6	comment	VeggieTales characters were designed as vegetables because they were basically spheres with a few extra features. Easy to animate. At least that's how it began. While the later character designs are largely the same, the subtle details have changed quite a bit. Larry now looks more like an actual cucumber, with bumps and color striations. The animation has gotten more sophisticated, but why would the animators want to do something more complex when what we have now works so well? Giving Bob and Larry hands at this point would make about as much sense as putting a drop-tile ceiling on the Sistine Chapel. Clothes or costumes that the Veggies wear, however — notably shirts — tend to stick rigidly to their bodies, because this simplifies the animator's job tremendously. Occasionally this results in strange-looking object behaviors — like the paper bag that Larry wears over his head in the counter-top bookend scenes for "Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Noah's Umbrella," which sounds like a paper bag but moves like a rubber artist's eraser.
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No Flow in CGI / int_ae22fbec	comment	This is made less obvious in Miles from Tomorrowland; despite the space setting that makes shorter, stiffer fabric and hair feel more natural, materials on these characters do move lightly from time to time.
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No Flow in CGI / int_b0ec0986	comment	Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep had to remove the capes from the Keyblade armor seen in the teaser movies at the end of Kingdom Hearts II for the actual game because of the programing difficulty and lag involved in simulating proper cape movement in the multiplayer. Even when the characters reappeared in later games on more powerful systems, they still don't have their capes; it seems this trope retconned them out. The closest thing yet is the Lingering Will's cape spontaneously appearing at the end of a remastered Birth by Sleep.
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No Flow in CGI / int_b4501394	comment	During the development of Left 4 Dead 2, the Spitter was going to be in a nightgown, but the idea got scrapped due to the difficulty of rendering a free flowing dress. Similarly, the survivors were going to have straps and other similar accessories to show how they can carry their weapons, but it was also cut out.
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No Flow in CGI / int_b4792a6e	comment	And played again in Monsters vs. Aliens, where Susan/Ginormica's hair is very smooth, static and tied in a ponytail.
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No Flow in CGI / int_b7bfa9a3	comment	The Mysterious Cities of Gold: Averted. The initial 80s series indulged in long fabrics and hair, like Mendoza's cape and Zia's hair. When the series returned years later in CGI, rather than cut them to save costs, the production kept the cape and hair accurate to the original anime. That said, their animation is still pretty basic... just like the cel-animated original.
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No Flow in CGI / int_b7c72249	comment	The reason we never get a 3D Alucard based on Ayami Kojima's design is because it would be really, really hard to make a 3D animation as magnificent as his Castlevania: Symphony of the Night sprite. His running animation started with about 15 frames, as he lunged into his run. Then looped another 15 for the running itself, complete with his long hair flowing and his cape flapping. The Super Smash Bros. Ultimate model of him makes a good attempt at least.
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No Flow in CGI / int_ba3d2748	comment	The Incredibles: Violet's hair took a lot of work to animate properly. In fact, Pixar animators had to cut a scene showing the family hiding in the ocean because of how much effort it would take to animate her hair underwater. The creators also expressed their exasperation in the commentary for the scene where Elastigirl and the kids fall into the ocean. Not only does it involve water and the aforementioned Violet's long hair, combining those two creates long, underwater hair, which behaves rather differently from dry hair. Practically all characters have hair that is affected by wind, water and movement. Violet's is the most noticeable, but Dash's hair is definitely not static when he runs at high speed. Dash's hair was actually the most difficult hair in the film; it had a general shape that it needed to keep, but it also needed to react to stimulus like his vast speed properly, without stretching — much. It took over a year of work to get his hair right. Despite the attempts to avert this, Helen's hair when they first land in the water after the plane gets blown up plays this trope straight. The hair technology was made so that its movement was simulated and animators didn't have to position it themselves, which is great for normal shots, but then there are times when the director wants it to move a specific way for dramatic effect (like how Mr. Incredible's hair falls when he thinks his family's been killed) and the simulation team start talking about "a half-second of force 5 gale wind in Mars gravity..." In the director's commentary on the DVD, they say that a relatively understated scene early in the movie caused lots of headaches for the animators. Mr. Incredible is examining his old costume and notices a rip from his fight with the robot (which prompts him to get a new costume, and it's that same rip that tips off his wife that he's being a superhero again). Apparently, it is very, very hard to animate someone sticking a hand through a hole in cloth. Another simple scene was processor-intensive: when the costume is chucked in the garbage can at Edna's and slowly slides in from the edge; it was incredibly difficult to simulate. Speaking of Edna, this trope is the Doylist reason for her "no capes" rule, although the reason she gives most certainly makes sense. Because of this, a large chunk of the movie's Hilarious Outtakes is simply hair failing to do things it should be doing.
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No Flow in CGI / int_ba666650	comment	In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Snake's clothes react convincingly well to wind etc.
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No Flow in CGI / int_bca72091	comment	This is presumably the reason why all hairstyles in Animal Crossing are either short or tied-up, and why all dresses only go down to the knees (and even then, they're stiff as if they've been starched). It's finally averted in New Horizons, which features longer dresses and hairstyles that sway and bounce appropriately. Also, some items react with semi-realistic physics near each other, such as clothing on the drying rack swaying when near a fan.
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No Flow in CGI / int_be040d57	comment	Since Flash animating wavy hair is difficult, in SpacePOP Rhea's hair is thinner and shorter than in the illustrations and Athena's hair is always tied into a bun instead of loose. Luna's long hair is separately animated from the rest of her.
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No Flow in CGI / int_bfb483af	comment	Splatoon averts this, with Inklings' and Octolings' tentacle hair bobbing and bouncing around with every step they take (most impressive with the default pigtails on the girl). Clothing is rather tight and stiff when worn, but special attention is given to the animation of your character's shirt crumpling to the ground after you're splatted.
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No Flow in CGI / int_c0d295c4	comment	And now several of the unlockable items in Team Fortress 2 also have jigglebones — which essentially allow them to simulate the inertia produced by the movements of whichever character is carrying or wearing them. Which seems to have hit a wall and bounced back. The Christmas tree hat and the rubber ball they created for an anniversary patch in 2010 (which appears in BLU's spawn when the server is in "party mode") both wobble and spaz out even when they are sitting perfectly still with no physics being applied to them.
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No Flow in CGI / int_c13792a1	comment	In God of War III, Hercules' loincloth sometimes clips through his legs, exposing his buttocks. On the other hand, Kratos' skirt generally flows pretty well.
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No Flow in CGI / int_c1b43f85	comment	Averted in Super Mario 3D World, where Princess Peach is playable, as is Rosalina.
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No Flow in CGI / int_c31c1f05	comment	In Prehistoric Park, the dinosaur Mei long was long thought to have been scaly, whereas the real animal had feathers. It actually has feathers in the show, albeit sculpted tightly onto its body rather than moving freely, which ultimately renders the feathers nearly invisible.
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No Flow in CGI / int_c72c2d06	comment	Star Wars Rebels has it both ways. The characters have sections of hair that move with the wind and action, but the rest is solid even when it shouldn't be. They avoid loose clothing, such as having the Tusken Raiders wrapped more tightly in their robes, but it sometimes moves lightly anyway. Averted completely with Darth Vader's cape, which eats up a considerable amount of the clothing budget every episode it's in (to the point where the showrunners wanted to include Orson Krennic but couldn't on account of his iconic cape). The hard plastic armor that the clones and stormtroopers are famed for are also too flexible, making it too obvious that they were simply painted onto the very flexible human model underneath, rather than being made of its composite parts.
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No Flow in CGI / int_cae9d02e	comment	Flower averts, despite not depicting any humans. Grass, flowers, petals in the breeze, and other objects all blow realistically in the player-controlled wind.
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No Flow in CGI / int_cf6917ab	comment	American McGee's Alice is a bit weird. Alice's hair is stiff as a board and can be seen cutting through her neck if you can twist her head right. Her apron ties, on the other hand, flap fairly convincingly whenever she runs or stands in a breeze. The sequel, Alice: Madness Returns, averts this trope by giving Alice's hair pretty complex animation.
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No Flow in CGI / int_cf69b21e	comment	Beast Wars loves this trope. The big advantage to having a show with a cast composed of robots is that you do away with the issue of clothes and hair right from the get go. Of course the character models look like they're just composed of geometric shapes; they're all robots! Problems arise when you look at the animal alt-modes and the real-life animals they run across, fur and feathers might as well be sculpted on for all they move.
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No Flow in CGI / int_d4f9ccf	comment	The flying carpet in Aladdin was considered a technical breakthrough, being a traditionally-animated character with CGI used to overlay a flexible and detailed surface pattern, which would otherwise be time-consuming and difficult to hand-animate. In the direct-to-video sequels and the TV series, the carpet's elaborate design was downgraded so it could be drawn without CGI. Compare the carpet as seen in the feature◊ with the direct-to-video/television version.◊
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No Flow in CGI / int_d502170c	comment	PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon is a bit better at this than its previous generation, but even then it keeps curls to a minimum.
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No Flow in CGI / int_d51769e1	comment	Averted in Nocturne (1999). Real-time cloth physics were applied liberally to various things such as curtains and articles of clothing, and (more or less) reacted to being walked through and blown by the wind.
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No Flow in CGI / int_d5f41057	comment	In the original Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (which uses sprite-based graphics outside a few Limited Animation cutscenes), Maria Renard wears a dress and her hair down. In the 2.5D remake in Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles, her Ayami Kojima redesign features pants and a ponytail, presumably because of this trope.
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No Flow in CGI / int_d62bbf7a	comment	A particularly glaring example would be Ezio's cape from Assassin's Creed II and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. When Ezio walking around or even jogging, his cape has a pretty realistic flow, but when he's running or on horseback, the cape becomes stiff as a damned board.
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No Flow in CGI / int_dab32e3	comment	Mega Man X: Zero in 3D-appearances, especially in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom and Marvel vs. Capcom 3, where his hair acts as just a big bunch of yellow... something instead of, you know, hair.
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No Flow in CGI / int_dc4bf324	comment	Primal did something similar with Jen's distinctive pigtails, as well as with one or two other characters, most of whom suffered from the 'hair through the neck' problem.
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No Flow in CGI / int_de1ec173	comment	Zig-zagged in Dragons: The Nine Realms: Played straight with the clothes: Most characters wear seemingly tight clothes and even in the case of characters like Tom, Olivia and D'Angelo, their vests tend to stick to their bodies rather than following real life physics. Played with in regards to the hair. While most characters have short hair, buns or in-universe use a lot of hair gel to make their hair stay in place, the hair of characters like Tom, Olivia or Alex is completely unrestrained and has a tendency to flow freely.Â
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No Flow in CGI / int_de308593	comment	Dead or Alive: Assuming you can tear your eyes from the physics-insulting boobs, you may notice the terribly animated hair. In Dimensions they use a different engine for handling long hair that stops it from clipping through the girl's shoulder every time she moves. Long, flowy dresses will still flow strangely at times, though.
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No Flow in CGI / int_df870b3f	comment	A scene in Arrival averts it presumably just for the hell of it. Amy Adams enters a zero gravity situation with her hair tied up, only for it to come undone and spend the scene billowing around as it would in actual zero gravity.
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No Flow in CGI / int_e04f934e	comment	Fire Emblem: Three Houses tends to animate large clumps of hair as a single mass, moving more like a cape than hair. It's particularly noticeable with Ferdinand's post-timeskip model, as his hair in the back moves as a single mass instead of individual pieces and has a tendency to float instead of resting in place. This is especially noticeable if he reclasses to a class with a more revealing outfit and/or moves his head enough, which can result in some rather odd views.◊
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No Flow in CGI / int_e0cc2a40	comment	However, Dreamworks does manage to avert this in the show Dragons: Riders of Berk. The quality still isn't the same as the film, but it still manages to work. Hair and clothes retain their texture and aren't all stiff, though some of the fur clothing pieces have either had the fur shortened or removed.
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No Flow in CGI / int_e144ba19	comment	In Dragon Age II BioWare started to address this by having hair move subtlety during conversation, cutscenes or when just running about (although compare the Arishok's long hair in the trailer to the game). The beards remain as stiff as ever though.
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No Flow in CGI / int_e26905cd	comment	In the opening movie to Tekken 2, Nina Williams has a spot which seems to expressly show Namco can avert this trope... At least in FMVs. Later games avert this by having in-engine clothing physics (of note being Jin Kazama's hoodie from 4 onwards that will fall off his head if he does something that knocks it off, like rolling backwards off the ground).
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No Flow in CGI / int_e381e71f	comment	In Digimon Tamers, Renamon was the only one of the three leads whose evolution Stock Footage was composed of traditional cel animation at every stage. Not coincidentally, Renamon is also the only one of the three who has lots of thick fluffy fur in one stage, billowy robes in another stage, and luxurious long hair in the final stage. Meanwhile, Guilmon and Terriermon have smooth fur and much more robotic higher stages, lending them well to CGI (though Dukemon/Gallantmon's cape does look alright, for the three seconds it's around).
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No Flow in CGI / int_e755f69b	comment	Batman: Arkham Origins gave Shiva, who normally has flowing hair that reaches almost to her waist, a short bob cut. She's had similar cuts in the comics, however.
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No Flow in CGI / int_e8595ff9	comment	Tangled: Tangled avoided this trope well enough to attract scientific attention. Averting this trope is the reason why this movie was the second most expensive film ever made at the time it was released. They did very well with the hair, clothes, and water... but the fire not so much. This was partially why they abandoned the original art style. The film was originally supposed to look like a watercolor painting using the technique that was later used for shorts such as Paperman. However, it proved to be way too expensive and difficult, so it was changed to a more typical art style. Even today, the hardware is still in its early stages and it is hard to make use of outside of shorts.
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No Flow in CGI / int_e8f01abf	comment	This is the reason Spawn's cape was turned into an axe and his chains are missing in his appearance in Soul Calibur 2. Seong Mina's dress in one of her alternate costumes also tends to act ridiculously whenever she is knocked into the air.
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No Flow in CGI / int_eb6719f6	comment	Squall's fur collar in Final Fantasy VIII was added expressly to challenge the animators by keeping them from following the trope.
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No Flow in CGI / int_eb6802b4	comment	Final Fantasy XIII averts this. Even Sazh, the most heavily-dressed character in the party and sporting a tight afro, has elements of his clothes and hair that blow in the breeze. This is because most of the many years it took to make the game were spent making the graphics engine deliver as realistic graphics as possible, at all times, without slowing down. It certainly shows.
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No Flow in CGI / int_eca84d14	comment	In the commentary for Over the Hedge, they mention that the animators complained that there was a lot of hugging in the movie. Not because it was sappy, but because it was really hard to animate fur in a hug.
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No Flow in CGI / int_eded135a	comment	Tomb Raider (2013), however, goes out of its way to avert this. On seventh-gen consoles and low graphics settings on PCs, Lara's hair moves fairly realistically, although it's wrapped in a tight ponytail. High-end PCs have an option called TressFX, which seems to render almost every single hair on Lara's head as it flutters about in the breeze...at the cost of about half your video memory. And since TressFX is an AMD program routine, it doesn't run well with nVidia graphics cards. It's standard in the Definitive Edition remake. Rise of the Tomb Raider continues to uses the impressive hair physics on current-gen consoles and PC, to the point that Lara's hair actually moves a bit too much to be realistic.
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No Flow in CGI / int_eed288ec	comment	Lampshaded in Zork: Grand Inquisitor, where a Pamphlet Shelf book on a troll-like species appearing in the game comments that they are usually hairy, but "the rarer Broigmoidus C.Graphicus... is most often hairless".
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No Flow in CGI / int_ef661e97	comment	In the 2D games of the Street Fighter series, Chun Li wears her long hair up in Odango buns, Cammy's hair is braided into 2 easily animated plaits, Karin's hair is sectioned into 6 tubular ringlets, and Sakura has short, boyish hair — all are easy to animate. Rose provides an exception, and her long hair flows seamlessly out behind her in a wave-like motion. However, when the games went 3D for the Street Fighter IV series, Rose's render was criticized by fans for having a zig-zag of rigid, plastic-looking hair that incorporated none of the movement of her 2D sprite.
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No Flow in CGI / int_efc9da0b	comment	In Olaf's Frozen Adventure, the Happy Holidays Dresses Elsa and Anna wear have more natural movement than the previous installments. This applies even to the fur on Elsa's white fox collar.
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No Flow in CGI / int_f724b70d	comment	Usually played straight in Code Lyoko, especially in season 1. And a rare justified case, because they are actually in a virtual space, so the CGI, with or without flow, is what the characters actually see. The Lyoko Avatars have all blocky hair (including Yumi's, which is in a tight bun) and clingy clothes. By season 2, the animators try adding a little flow, like with the occasional Dramatic Wind, or Ulrich's hair ribbon flapping behind him when he's riding the Overbike. By season 4, Yumi has loose hair that certainly flow with her various acrobatics, though the clothes are even more skintight.
No Flow in CGI / int_f724b70d	featureApplicability	1.0
No Flow in CGI / int_f724b70d	featureConfidence	1.0
Code Lyoko	hasFeature	No Flow in CGI / int_f724b70d
No Flow in CGI / int_f858847a	type	No Flow in CGI
No Flow in CGI / int_f858847a	comment	Several of the trainer classes in PokÃ©mon X and Y are shown with curly or wavy hair in their artwork, however their overworld models show them with straight hair.
No Flow in CGI / int_f858847a	featureApplicability	1.0
No Flow in CGI / int_f858847a	featureConfidence	1.0
Pokémon X and Y (Video Game)	hasFeature	No Flow in CGI / int_f858847a
No Flow in CGI / int_fa5e90fd	type	No Flow in CGI
No Flow in CGI / int_fa5e90fd	comment	In City of Heroes, only one character, Ghost Widow, has flowing hair. The developers stated this would be a huge performance bottleneck if they extended it to everyone else. Even still, her hair is a bit too elastic for its own good. Also played straight with every piece of clothing or equipment (most noticeably in the robes), besides the capes. The capes, which are the source of Ghost Widow's hair physics, work nicely, since they flow and move rather nicely, but the elasticity is still there. Especially noticeable when using travel powers, since any quick movement makes the cape double in size temporarily. Champions Online uses basically the same physics, too. The developers had actually left capes out of City of Heroes when it was initially released, citing this problem. They decided no capes were better than really poorly done capes, and decided to wait until they could work out decent cape physics to implement them. This brings in a unique, player-enforced version of this trope. During certain missions involving large groups of players, enemies and most importantly particle effects, attending players were often asked to have their characters dress in as simple costumes as possible. This lessened the demand on lower-end computers during the more graphically demanding portions. With capes being as processor intensive as they were, players would often be kicked outright if spotted wearing one.
No Flow in CGI / int_fa5e90fd	featureApplicability	1.0
No Flow in CGI / int_fa5e90fd	featureConfidence	1.0
City of Heroes (Video Game)	hasFeature	No Flow in CGI / int_fa5e90fd
No Flow in CGI / int_faa385ac	type	No Flow in CGI
No Flow in CGI / int_faa385ac	comment	Played with in the animated shorts based on The Legend of Zelda: The Light of Courage. Link and Zelda's hair and clothes are completely stiff, but Ganon's robe flows way too much, at one point even falling halfway off when he moves too fast. (This was actually a mistake, but they decided to Throw It In! because it was funny.)
No Flow in CGI / int_faa385ac	featureApplicability	1.0
No Flow in CGI / int_faa385ac	featureConfidence	1.0
The Light of Courage (Web Animation)	hasFeature	No Flow in CGI / int_faa385ac
No Flow in CGI / int_fbf33963	type	No Flow in CGI
No Flow in CGI / int_fbf33963	comment	In Inception wardrobe made sure that Ariadne had her hair up for the level in the hotel. As she floats in zero gravity for that level, it would have been a nightmare for the SFX crew to animate her actor Elliot Page's hair if it had been down.
No Flow in CGI / int_fbf33963	featureApplicability	1.0
No Flow in CGI / int_fbf33963	featureConfidence	1.0
Inception	hasFeature	No Flow in CGI / int_fbf33963
No Flow in CGI / int_fd8ef85e	type	No Flow in CGI
No Flow in CGI / int_fd8ef85e	comment	By Left 4 Dead, Valve was comfortable giving Zoey a ponytail and bangs. Although they did a pretty good job animating the Boomer's large bodies... During the development of Left 4 Dead 2, the Spitter was going to be in a nightgown, but the idea got scrapped due to the difficulty of rendering a free flowing dress. Similarly, the survivors were going to have straps and other similar accessories to show how they can carry their weapons, but it was also cut out.
No Flow in CGI / int_fd8ef85e	featureApplicability	1.0
No Flow in CGI / int_fd8ef85e	featureConfidence	1.0
Left 4 Dead (Video Game)	hasFeature	No Flow in CGI / int_fd8ef85e

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No Flow in CGI	processingCategory2	Animation Tropes
No Flow in CGI	processingCategory2	Undead Horse Trope
Masha and the Bear (Animation) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
RPG Metanoia (Animation) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Cross Ange / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Digimon X-Evolution / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Kirby: Right Back at Ya! / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
The Mysterious Cities of Gold / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Firebreather (Comic Book) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Get Fuzzy (Comic Strip) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Arrival / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Inception / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Small Soldiers / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
TRON: Legacy / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Animal Crossing (Franchise) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Frozen (Franchise) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Power Rangers (Franchise) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Resident Evil (Franchise) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Tekken (Franchise) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
The Future Is Wild (Franchise) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Toy Story (Franchise) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
TombRaider	seeAlso	No Flow in CGI
The Boxcar Children / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
The Future Is Wild / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Record of Ragnarok (Manga) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Birds of Prey (2002) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Dinosaur Planet / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Alan Wake (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Chousoku Henkei Gyrozetter (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Dark Souls II (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Dishonored (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Elite Beat Agents (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Escape from Monkey Island (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Gabriel Knight (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Heavenly Sword (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
L.A. Noire (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Legendary (2008) (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Luigi's Mansion (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Mafia II (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Marvel: Contest of Champions (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Observation (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Ride to Hell: Retribution (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Tales of Symphonia (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
The Order: 1886 (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
The Sims 2 (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Tomb Raider I (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Total War: Warhammer (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
WWE Video Games (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Watch_Dogs (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Wild Woody (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
XIII (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Zeus: Master of Olympus (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Videogame / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Melody (Visual Novel) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Spirit of Justice (Visual Novel) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Course of Nature (Web Animation) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Dead Fantasy (Web Animation) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Star Trek Retribution (Web Animation) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
The Light of Courage (Web Animation) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Fact Fiend (Web Video) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Satellite City (Web Video) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Two Best Friends Play (Web Video) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
A Monster in Paris / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Angel Wars / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Battle for Terra / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Blaze and the Monster Machines / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Delgo / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Donkey Kong Country / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Dragons II: The Metal Ages / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Dragons: Riders of Berk / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Dragons: The Nine Realms / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Flushed Away / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Foodfight! / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Hoodwinked! / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Isle of Dogs / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Jane and the Dragon / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Luxo Jr. / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Miles from Tomorrowland / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Monsters vs. Aliens (2013) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Olaf's Frozen Adventure / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Prep & Landing / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
ReBoot / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Rescue Heroes / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Rock Dog / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Shadow Raiders / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Shrek 2 / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
SpacePOP / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Star Wars Rebels / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
The Incredibles / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
The Incredibles / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
The Penguins of Madagascar / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
The Swan Princess / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Toy Story / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Tripping the Rift / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
VeggieTales / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Appleseed (Manga) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
Prince of Persia (2008) (Video Game) / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI

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