A strange question about hoses

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Tue, 01/15/2013 - 10:35

nineteenthly

I should explain, i'm in the middle of doing an animation from the POV of a woman being inflated to bursting through a hose in her mouth. I'm just doing the last few frames (there's plenty more to do) and i have presented myself with a quandary about which i've never thought before, so here's my question:

When you imagine someone being blown up with a hose until they burst, do you imagine the hose staying where it is, or do you think of it as flying out under the force of the explosion? Or would you just rather not go there?

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Tue, 01/15/2013 - 10:57

MagnoliaL

Not a fan of popping (didn't even know that was a thing until I came here...) but, I am going to look at this in a FOR SCIENCE mentality.

Realistically, the water preassure would force the hose out before they popped.

Assuming the hose is somehow anchored in or glued to the person, the explosion would represent a sudden release in preassure, not a sudden increase. The hose would not fly out unless it itself were the point of failure, in which case the person would not pop.

That's my take on it.

That poor woman. :(

Tue, 01/15/2013 - 11:13

LutherVKane

In my imagined burstings, people either pop like balloons into a shower of tiny rubbery bits or they disintegrate into nothingness, and they do so with a good deal of force. In both scenarios, the hose would likely go flying from the blast.

This is far from what would happen in a more realistic scenario, but this is the imagined scenario. The realistic scenario is quite a bit more grisly, so yeah I'd rather not go there.

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Tue, 01/15/2013 - 12:52

klaeresource

I agree with Luther—do what the audience expects. Go with the aesthetic, not the realistic.

(In STAR TREK Roddenberry added "swooshes" as the Enterprise zipped past the camera and had people tumble out of their seats for a "near miss" in a space battle.)

Tue, 01/15/2013 - 17:47

NightSlash

I'd imagine it staying in place until the explosion, in which the tube would go flying away.

Wed, 01/16/2013 - 00:16

nineteenthly

Yes, i'm sorry, i know i'm into this and people find it disturbing but if it helps, bear in mind that i identify with the inflatee and want it to be me who pops, possibly as a woman, so that "poor woman" is me.

When i've finished and uploaded the animation, although the initial examination will have popping in it, i'll put in a warning and i also plan to make later animations where the viewer gets a choice of popping, non-popping and within those, a variety of scenarios through on-screen annotations, so there will eventually be interaction with the viewer, though not at first, though that won't work on mobile devices.

OK, so that makes the animation a lot easier as i can have the hose fly away at the end and i don't have to paste it into every frame. Thanks - good call!

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A strange question about hoses

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