[Animation] Character Behavior and Balancing

Even though this video has the the two singing you kinda get the idea that Rita (cat) moves very graciously bouncing from box to box without causing any damage. however Runt (dog) basically charges head first into a wall and hes quite a bit dim, so Jen and I had a thought that perhaps we could you this for the T-Rex and Carnosaurus to work out their balancing. so basically it would look like this

T-Rex

• High top speed 
• Low Handling
• Low acceleration

Carnosaurus

• Low top speed
• High Handling
• Low acceleration

Allosaurus

• Medium top speed
• Medium handling
• Medium acceleration

so we conducted a studying using Mario kart and sub weight for control we found that even though they were all respectfully different in terms of acceleration, handling and top speed. they all finished within the same window of time their was only a few seconds between them. we did the same track and same driver so eliminate any anomalies that could be caused by the changing driver and track such as skill level and knowledge of the track video below

just to back up these results from Mario kart we also used Sonic all star racing just to see if their was any difference in their balancing of the carts. once again using same track and same driver.

Sonic car

• Top speed 5/5
• Acceleration 2/5
• Handling 3/5

Tails Car

• Top speed 2/5
• Acceleration 3/5
• Handling 5/5

Knuckles car

• Top speed 3/5
• Acceleration 3/5
• Handling 3/5

Fastest lap was done with Knuckles

Sonic: 00:54:982

Tail: 00:55:149

Knuckles: 00:54:149

So even though their all pretty different in terms of their attributes they were all within a second of each other