Why do the X-legs and O-legs in real life become beautiful cartoon legs?

Animation is a place to create beauty, especially the female characters portrayed in animation, whose appearance is perfect. All kinds of shapes are well posed. However, have you found that some shapes in animation are actually anti-human structures, and the good-looking animation legs are actually deformed X legs and O legs in reality. What's going on here? Just follow us to the end of the article, otherwise you may miss many details.

Charming leg shape in animation

We can often see some female characters in cartoons. When standing, feet and toes are usually inward, which is actually a proper term of ACG animation circle. This is called "splayed foot", which is a unique and lovely attribute in ACG subculture.

A typical example is Takanashi Rikka's performance in Falling in Love with Secondary Diseases. Even if you just jump around, it's a figure of eight.

Anti-human cartoon leg

But in fact, if this is put into reality, it is a typical fork leg. We can clearly see from the figure that this is an O-shaped shape.

Then there is the X-shape, such as the standing posture of the beautiful girl warrior in "Beautiful Girl Warrior".

Obviously, this cute cartoon leg in the animation. It is actually anti-human.

Where did the comic leg come from?

This so-called eight-character comic leg is actually well documented. Because Japan still maintains the custom of "sitting up straight", sitting up straight for a long time will lead to slight deformation of the legs, so many Japanese women will have this slight splayed leg (that is, X-shaped or O-shaped). It happens that this slightly inner eight or outer eight shape is particularly cute in animation, especially for those petite girls.

Slowly, in all kinds of animation works, the modeling of girls' standing posture, especially those cute characters, is often very common.

In addition, this shape of eight inside and eight outside can highlight the line sense of the legs, so many painters will paint like this.

Further reading: squatting ducks

In addition to the inner eight mentioned above, there is also a leg posture rated as the most "feminine" by Japanese media, that is, "duck sitting", also known as "loli sitting", which is evaluated by netizens as the exclusive cute sitting posture given to girls by God! Because this sitting posture is almost impossible for boys!

However, I have always thought that this statement is not rigorous. Boys had better say in the comment section that they can do this kind of "sitting duck"!

Animation creation often comes from life and is higher than life. When we watch animation for a long time, some characters become accustomed to it. But in fact, it is different from reality. Therefore, there will be anti-human structures, but they will become beautiful cartoon legs. In reality, they will be deformed X legs and O legs.