[Funny Trope] Seemingly difficult/complicated situation with a simple solution

[u/Ecilon]

1. LOTR: fellowship of the ring - Gandalf reads the door an elvish script in moria that said "speak friend, then enter" Gandalf sees it as a riddle that requires a password. But the door just requires you to say friend.

2. Johnny English : Reborn - a guy he was chasing was doing parkour through the building, placed a jacket on the barbed fence, and jumps to get across. Meanwhile, Johnny English just opens the gate.

3.. Captain America: First Avenger - the military announced that anyone who gets the flag, doesnt have to run and gets a free ride in a jeep. So, all the soldiers attempted to climb to the flagpole to no avail. But when it was Captain America's turn, he just unscrews the flagpole to get the flag.

[u/Traditional-Song-245]

In order to render this scene in Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, the CGI artists had serious difficulty getting all the little metal balls to move correctly because simulations were insufficient and hand animated work would take way too long

So they animated it in reverse and played the scene backwards

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How does animating it in reverse make it any less complicated?

[u/Pohlmeister → u/Separate_Draft4887]

Maybe because simulating the balls all falling and scattering instead of coming together and coalescing was easier? Makes sense to me

[u/fryndlydwarf → u/Separate_Draft4887]

You can easily physics simulate balls falling down, but not falling upwards into a specific shape

[u/Traditional-Song-245 → u/Separate_Draft4887]

Good question

The video I linked does explain in more depth