Apex Legends dev reveals why Wattson holds weapons \u201cawkwardly\u201d Respawn EntertainmentApex Legends\u2019 principal animator Moy Parra has revealed why Static Defender Wattson carries her weapons \u201cawkwardly\u201d \u2013 without the military smoothness of the battle royale\u2019s other legends. Apex Legends\u2019 diverse and colorful character base is one of the reasons so many players have fallen in love with the game and its legends. Each has their own catchphrases, personality and lore to set them apart. However, Respawn\u2019s attention to detail in crafting individuality goes even further than that, as principal animator Moy Parra revealed in a series of tweets. \u201cIf you ever wondered why Wattson holds her weapons a bit awkwardly compared to say, Bangalore,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s because my niece who provided the MoCap for her had never held a gun before in her life and we wanted to capture this natural innocence in all of Wattson\u2019s move sets.\u201d Despite her credentials as a lethal legend, Wattson retains an innocence that few if any of the other characters possess. Her lore states that she is the daughter of the Apex Games\u2019 Lead Engineer, and his death catalyzed her involvement in the games, where she now fights alongside her friends. \u23ea if you ever wondered why Wattson holds her weapons a bit awkwardly compared to say, Bangalore. That’s because my niece who provided the MoCap for her had never held a gun before in her life and we wanted to capture this natural innocence in all of Wattson’s move sets \u26a1\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f pic.twitter.com\/HZyfYW73LE \u2014 Moy Parra \ud83c\udfae (@_moyparra) July 1, 2021 Wattson\u2019s weapon carrying may not have even been noticeable to some players, but it certainly becomes clearer when the Static Defender is sprinting and cradling her gun somewhat unnaturally. Parra elaborated: \u201cThis was one of my favorite shoots ever. There was so much emotion happening that day. Apex had just released 3 days before and I was literally working with my family!\u201d \u2705 this was one of my favorite shoots ever. There was so much emotion happening that day. Apex had just released 3 days before and I was literally working with my family! Huge shout-out to Shawn @jitterbot who directed Thalia on bringing out the Wattson that we all love!\u2764\ufe0f pic.twitter.com\/5XYuRSKXXe \u2014 Moy Parra \ud83c\udfae (@_moyparra) July 1, 2021 It goes to show the level of detail and thought that Respawn put into crafting legends, and goes some way to explain how Wattson is able to maintain an innocence in spite of her lethal talents and abilities. We\u2019re sure there will be more of the same attention to detail when Season 10 drops in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends dev reveals why Wattson holds weapons \u201cawkwardly\u201d Respawn EntertainmentApex Legends\u2019 principal animator Moy Parra has revealed why Static Defender Wattson carries her weapons \u201cawkwardly\u201d \u2013 without the military smoothness of the battle royale\u2019s other legends. Apex Legends\u2019 diverse and colorful character base is one of the reasons so many players have fallen in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}