Re: The Force Unleashed II - General Rahm Kota WIP
Thanks, your Honor. Always appreciated, sir.
Hi B-Dub. A skew is a twist or oblique line. Dictionary.com has this:
adjective
6. having an oblique direction or position; slanting.
7. having a part that deviates from a straight line, right angle
If you look at the following reference, you can see that the center line of the armor split-gap at the elbow guard is twisted around a tiny bit to the rear, whereas the center line of the circle made up of the forearm plate and wrist clip is twisted a bit toward the front.
This is likely due to the often elastic nature of CG animated characters and their armor, which can flex and twist as the CG body parts flex and twist. In real life, that flexibility (pun intended) is not an easy option. Also note that the elbow guard extends slightly above the point of the elbow. After testing the fit of a cardboard mock-up, I determined that a twist was needed to keep the edge of the elbow guard from biting into my bicep if I rotated my forearm with the elbow bent.
The amount of skew was the minimum to allow me to scratch my nose and eat a sandwich (not at the same time mind, I'm not that coordinated) or hold a saber in horizontal guard while in costume, and can be seen as the difference between the two black lines at the elbow end of the armature in this next photo. The bottom line is the center line of the arm from the back of the hand as it hangs at rest. The top line is the line that the split-gap or separation between vambrace halves follows.
So the final castings take on a bit of a twist, or skew.
Hope that answers the question.
~ BC
