Zamorakian Hasta Stab animation looks like the wielder is handing his friend a banana.. The creator of this animation had not experience with thrusting weapons, and that fact shows.
1: The character should not bow his torso toward the enemy. This action would remove a large portion of momentum/power from the thrust - Bending forward would effectively put the character's balance forward, requiring him to compensate; i.e., lessening the forward thrusting capability of his shoulder (arm) in order to keep himself from tumbling forward. A Soldier should never be off-balance. 2: The weapon strikes diagonally. In the manner with which this weapon is thrust, the point of the spearhead has hardly any use - a spear thrust is nothing if the piercing tip is so many degrees off 90*.
Go ahead; Stand up, find a broom and mimic the stab animation to see how incorrect it is.
What the animation
ought
to be is: The character twists with his
hips
anti-clockwise (away from the weapon), effectively bolstering the strength of his arm with the weight of his body. The weapon should strike the target
perpendicularly
, rather than diagonally.
15-Oct-2015 06:44:20