Respawn developer shares the reason behind Wattson's awkward animations

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Respawn's principal animator Moy Parra fresh took to Chirrup to explain why Apex Legends character Natalie 'Wattson' Paquette holds her weapons "a trifle awkwardly" in a fun behind-the-scenes video.

Parra explained that Respawn wanted Wattson's animations to communicate that she's not wont to handling weapons. To accomplish that, Wattson's apparent motion bewitch was cooked past Parra's niece, who had never held a gun before, "and we wanted to capture this natural innocence in all of Wattson's move sets."

⏪ 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 altogether of Wattson's move sets ⚡️❤️ pic.chirrup.com/HZyfYW73LEJuly 1, 2021

The video recording shows a face-by-side comparison of the new motion capture carrying out and some of the animations used for Wattson, including Wattson running play with the gun clasped in her coat of arms like an American football.

In a response to the video, Parra added, "Much of our direction was: don't try to play a character, just be yourself and we will find Wattson together!"

At 22, Wattson's character is one of the youngest in Apex Legends, but as wel clearly non-combative in both her background and playstyle. Every bit the daughter of an engineer, World Health Organization then took engineering along herself as a special interest, her toolkit is all themed around electricity-based defensive play.

Wattson too accepted a "major buff" recently in the Genesis Collection Update that sees new characters revisiting old locations from Apex Legends' original launch. "Wattson privy now commit more one Loch Ness monster on the map at once with her Epical emote." There can, in fact, be adequate to twenty Loch Ness monster plushes on the map at once.

You can read much about how outdo to roleplay Wattson (and all the other legends) in our Apex Legends characters guide.