This article is very great, showed me animators can literally do anything they want!
but also they try to keep things as real as possible. animators would study certain laws of physics
just to get how certain things movie in the air. this article was also mainly about creatures such as
dragons and lizards and etc. they tell you exactly how dragons grow up shown here.
whendragons grow up, their rigs get heavier.
“In the beginning they were really tiny and didn’t have that much detail, so we had one rig for simulation and animation,” Friedmann says. “We’ve rebuilt the rig each season. The basics stay the same, but every year, we find new stuff that might be better and we have more detail. At first, they were crawling and we animated them from the hip. In season two, they started flying, so we added a pivot for the flying. We also added muscles as they got bigger. Their frills came in. We had to animate the frills, the scales, and the horns, and the rig got heavier each year. In season three, their chests got bigger. So we added chest muscles and new pivots around the chest area for flying. They’re huge now. 12 meters long.”
i say this article is very brief about animating and interests in such creatures as provided above.