Monday, November 29, 2010

Tangled-Untangled

What would it be like to have 72 ft of hair?  Disney animators observed the movements of a person who had 6 ft of hair to draw Rapunzel and how her hair would move.  What is the physics of hair?  View this video and see how the animators did their homework
Hair Physics

98 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think that it would be hard to go places with 72 ft of hair. And i think that it is cool that they made tangled.
Sarah Savard

ReddingtonDavid said...

to have 72 feet of hair would be horrible. unlike in the movie, the hair would have friction which you couldnt move a lot and 72 feet of hair would be very heavy

Tyler said...

if i was a girl than maybe but i dont really care

Anonymous said...

I think it would be cool and hard to go different places with 72ft of hair. I can't wait to see the movie Tangled.

Schirmer,Brandon said...

if i had 72 ft of hair i would not like it because just imagine what would happen if you open a window in a car or if you want to ride a roller coaster. the hair would fly around in your face in the car and bad things can happen if you ride a roller coaster.

ReddingtonDavid said...

you guys would care when 72 feet of hair which is like 72 pounds will be pulling you back because of friction

Mauricio,Courtney said...

I think in the cartoon it would be easy but in real life it would be heavy and hard to carry around! I used to have long hair but it wasnt 72ft and that was heavy!!!! The physics of hair are confusing to me!! I dont know if I understand just yet but I think with some work, I would understand.

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Andrew Gibbous McCarthy said...

it would be really hard to go places with 72 ft of hair because people could step on it and it could get stuck and how would u brush it.

Mauricio,Courtney said...

@ Sarah Savard I agree with you and i bet youd get alot of split ends!!! hahaha! But I think it would be fun in a cartoon because it wouldnt be as heavy, dont you think?

Luke said...

Well that was interesting. I mean, im glad to know that 72 ft o hair would weigh you down. I personally would want that much hair. Then, i could become a hairy superhero. Or not. I think it may not be fun when you have to eject from a plane.

Andrew Gibbous McCarthy said...

@ brandon
i agree it could get stuck or blind u

Anonymous said...

@Sarah Savard
I think so too.

Luke said...

@ andreeeeeeeeeeeew,
I agree. how would you dry it too? Questions of practicality is all. What if u got in a fight? peolpe could just pull your hair

Lamping Ally said...

I think 72 feet of hair would be really cool at first but then after a while it would get really annoying and super heavy!I mean how do you wash it or brush it?! C:

Anonymous said...

@sarah i also agree that it would be hard to go places with 72ft of hair. That would be alot of combing and split ends.

Peters,Jennifer said...

ugh! to have 72 feet of hair...cut it off! My head would feel like a bowling ball and if it ever got caught on something you'd get pulled back, so I would very much dislike it.The physics of hair is the hair is treated like springs, so you have to make it look realistic, but not too realistic.

Anonymous said...

@anna
I think the same thind about the video i think that is so cool but it would be very hard to bring anywhere
Sarah Savard

Moehring,DeeAnna said...

i would wounder where my hair would be because it would be in a diffrent spot then me it would be behind me very behind me! i would probably want to try out getting 72 ft of hair and i mean you can get it cut off if it gets annoying! alos it wuld get annoying because its probably going to weigh more than the person! i dont quite understand the hair physics i might look more at it its cool how they made her hair so long thoughz!

Anonymous said...

I think maybe since in real life the hair would way a lot, that pulling it around would make her go bald.

Anonymous said...

@anna
I agree with u that would be hard
Sarah Savard

Lamping Ally said...

@ Courtney I know they thought way to much about hair physics for an animated movie character! C:

Peters,Jennifer said...

@courtney
I do agree that hair would be less weight in a movie, but can you even imagine? Think about it, she had it dragging on the ground. It probably picked up sticks and leaves, so she has to take a lot of showers and brush it. That would be too much work for me.

Savard, Samantha said...

I would never want to have 72ft. of hair that would be annoying to comb all that and drag it around. I think it is really cool how they made that hair so realistic considering the movie is a cartoon.

Moehring,DeeAnna said...

@anna sanzere
i agree it would be VERY heavy to carry around all that hair! C:

Tyler said...

@ Ally Lamping
You go through a car wash to was it

LaGrangeBonnie said...

72 ft of hair would be really heavy and probably kind of annoying, but who knows maybe it would be kind of cool and maybe even useful. You could be like Rapunzel and swing by your hair! :DThe physics of hair is similar to springs, so they have some refernece.

LaGrangeBonnie said...

@ Jenn Haha who knows maybe you'd like it, but your right it would get really heavy you'd have to like sit or lay half the time.

Kresser Jacob said...

wow no du thats a fairy tail cuz it would be so heveey and also ther would bestick nd twigs in it

Moehring,DeeAnna said...

@ samantha savard
it would be annoying to comb and brush!

Anonymous said...

i love that they made this movie i cant wait to see it!if i had 72 feet of hair it would get agnoring i would feel like someone is following me!i would do what she does in the movie she swings on it i would also play double doutch!i would want to get a hair cut after a while!

Sydney,Vest said...

I think that would be really heavy. i mean an extra 80 pounds of hair on your head? and the hair would/could get stuck everywhere you go!? A person with 6ft of hair? thats still alot! i wonder how much that would weight? I think animators did a really good job on this movie, when i saw this i thought it was really cool and they did their best to make is realistic.

Anonymous said...

lyndseu roberto did the anomyonos

Garvey, Emily said...

Wow, 72 feet of hair? I would step on it and it would probalyy get dirty from dragging on the ground. My back would probaly would hurt too. That's so weird.

Tedesco.Jake said...

having 72 feet of hair would be horrible because all that hair would be really heavy and you couldnt move as well as she does in the movie also it would take like 3 hours to wash all the hair that she had

waters,gabrielle said...

I think that i would hate have all that hair like how would you brush and were would you put it.It would probly be hared to make that movie because the hair flow is a problem. Its not posibal for someone to grow all that hair plush 74 feet of hair...wow

bekah said...

to have 72feet of hair is probubly hard because as it drags on the ground their is frection and then it couldnt move. it would also be hard because it would be so heavy

Sydney,Vest said...

i agree with David Reddington because the friction would really slow you down.

Unknown said...

that would be so hard your hair would be heavy and it would get caught in doors if you had 72 feet of hair you shouldn't get on escalators, elevators or roller coasters. that movie does look funny though.:)

Smith,Courtney said...

It would be hard to have 72 feet of hair because if you had that much hair in real life it would weigh up to7 or 8 pounds. I the phisics of hair the hairs are treated like spings.

Greve, Julia said...

i wouldn't have that long of hair. i bet it would be painful getting it caught on things and havng o add all that weight to the back of your head.

bekah said...

@ sydney vest

i agree with you 6feet is still alot. and the animation was really good

Henry Minning said...

I think it would be impossible to have 72 feet hair. It would be to heavy to carry and it would be hard to drag on the grond and lug it while you walk. It could get caught on something and yank your head and neck and you coyuld get hurt easily. And friction from the sliding of the hair and the ground would make it even more complicarted.

Anonymous said...

well i dont know how i would feel about having 72ft of hair!!! it would get really annoying all the time. it would also weigh you down alot because of friction 2!! bbut i mean i would try it out and then most likely get it cut]

--Sydney polking

Anonymous said...

i agree with you sarah it is cool like who would have thought of 72ft long hair..

--Sydney Polking--

Anonymous said...

I think to have 72 ft hair woul dbe very hard. You would have to take very long to brush through t and get it to feel soft every day. To have 72 ft hair in realy life would be impossible. To carry it around with you would weigh alot and to muck to carry.

Henry Minning said...

@ andrew
I agree, it would be hard to brush your hair and it would be hard to keep track of all that is. Where it is and all that. And if someone stepped on it, which would probably happen, that would not be good. I would not want to have 72 feet hair.

gorrasi josh said...

i think it would be so fun to have 72 feet of hair except for the cleaning process. its how it moves and they take it part by part to put it in the movie.

Anonymous said...

@SydneyVest
I agree because 8o pounds of hair would not match my happy day. Even 4 feet of hair is alot. The movie was cool and a cool star on my fav show CHuch is in it. He is Zachary Levi.

CameronIan said...

Its cool that the animation artist went and tried to mimick the way real hair moves in the real world. 72ft. of hair would be a pain to have, what if you got it stuck under a roller coaster or it caught on fire (lol). But it would make a nice blanket.

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Andie said...

In real life 72 pounds of hair would be hard to go places. Carrying around all that hair must be hard.

Anonymous said...

@sarah
i would hate it to bacause it would not feel good with that much hair and with all that hair would be havey to. and hard to bruch!

johnson, allison said...

i wouldnt want 72 ft hair. i think it would be hard to walk with hair that long.

Andie said...

It would also be hard to play sports like that because your hair would go all over the feild.

Anonymous said...

I it would be tring to carry so much hair because thats like carring a sack of pateosos.And then when you drop it down it would probably hurt your head if you just drop it down. Well tangled is a good movie I saw it with my best freinds.

AUSTIN BREINER

Anonymous said...

Kylie gill
i would hate to have all that hair because it will be hard to move and go places with it out getting it tangeld and it would prob. be dragging if u did not hold it i would hate holding the hair.

alyssa weber said...

It would be great and bad it would be great because i would be able to brade tens of feet of hair! that will keep me busy!it woul be bad because you would get so many nots you would have to get out, and you would use like 5 shampoo's every time you take a shower!

The phisics of hair is very complicated and not everyone can master it.

Zach "Hillshire" Viox said...

If Your hair weighed that much would'nt your head and body get crushed and would you even be able to move? How big of a hair net would it be if she was a lunch lady? The People who made this movie went through a lot of trouble to make this movie.

Anonymous said...

What would it be like to have 72 ft of hair?
It would be really hardd! For showers you would have to use like 5 bottles of shampoo!! hahah that would be funny. I dont really long hair so i would most likly cut it of.

What is the physics of hair?
In the movie the Physics of hair is to keep the hair as looking real as possible, and to keep it moving with her as she moves.

Anonymous said...

Andrew reis
if i had 72ft long hair I would hate it. i would cut it down to 1ft. and it would be bab because if you vacqum your hair would be sucked up.

Natalie said...

I think it would be really cool to have 72 feet of hair. It would make great camoflauge and you could use it as a weapon. In the video it said the physics of the hair was kind of like a spring.

walter burkart said...

i think it would stink having it lay on the ground and all the the weight she should just get a hair cut

adelly_foshow2 said...

the animators said be like caring a big 80lb mop caring pounds and pounds of hair it's just not likely.

Austin Deller

baxter bryan said...

i think it would be really hard to go places with 72 ft of hair that means it would be tangled.

baxter bryan said...

sarah savard-i think it would be hard to go there to it would be really tangled.


bryan baxter

Zach "Hillshire" Viox said...

@ alyssa weber
I agree that would suck taking a shower because you pick up dirt and other substances from the ground and it would take you like 6 hours to wash your hair

John Dinger said...

it would stink to have 72 feet of hair. it woud be heavy and to long to wrestle with.the phyics of hair is like a spring but i dont really understand it.

Anonymous said...

-sam sims if i had 70feet of hair i would be triping over it it will get in the way of everything i try to do.

Anonymous said...

I think it would be nasty to go places with 72 ft of hair.

kirk frederick

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Jenkins,Tom said...

amazing... becuse i am going to be a computer techition. or a programer. how dose she hold 80 lbs of hair? how did they know exactly 72 feet of hair?

MooreKassidy said...

I dont think that it would be funn at all to have 72 feet of hair. It would be hard to brush. it would be hard to go places with. It would get stuck in doors,elevaters and escalaters, and thats very dangerous. It looks like they did besides 80 pounds of hair,!(:

dacoda said...

i think that it is neet how they make the animations if i had all that hair i would cut it off and donate it.

Guthier Nick said...

I think 72 feet of hair would be heavy. I would also hate to have it because what wouls happen when I take a Shower? Swimming? Or if somebody stepped on it?

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Calderon, Heidi said...

I think tat it would just be like very hard to go around to places and too do more things with 72ft long hair,, that would just make me crazy. But, like how would she wash her hair its too long to reach the bootm of her hair, it would adventually get very obnoxious. I also think that the movie Tangled is pretty cool though.
Hair physics are treated like springs, too make it look so very long.

rentz,monica said...

I think it wold be hard to walk with 72 ft of hair without people stepping on it. I also think it would be hard to hold your head up

Thorp,Jayden said...

@ sarah savard
yes it would be really hard. it would be hard to brush htat would be very very hard tpo do.

cirkovic, daniel said...

Man 72 ft of hair. It would be almost impossible to carry that hiar in your hands but, carry it on your head! Not what I would like. Wouldn't her hiar get dirty from pulling it across the ground? I imangine it was hard to animate that hair. You have to look at how your hair moves when you walk, turn your head, and when you simply move. I'm ssure you can't climb on hair like a rope because that would hurt the owner real bad depending on the wait of the person. Ooh, It'll be a mess when her hair starts to fall out.

rentz,monica said...

@ sarah

I agree it would be hard to go places with 72 ft of hair.

georgantonis,pete said...

i wonder how she can hold that much hair and how she takes shower she cant put soap on all that hair the only place she can is a pool or a river

Guthier Nick said...

@David Reddington
I agree it would be hard to travel in 72 feet of hair with the friction or it getting tangled with something else or maybe even yourself, but it would be cool to see somebody with hair like that

Dupont, Noah said...

It would NOT be nice to have 72 feet of hair, my parents think my hair is already too long-I hate short hair-! Though you could use it as a nice 80 pound pillow! The physics of her hair is somewhat like a spring, its quite complicated, they studied hair of real people and also instead of animating all the hairs they did about 170 or something like that. It still looks realistic.

Also Im not a big fan of 'New Disney' with all these movies. I like older Disney, with Lion King, Mulan, and Fantasia. Disney was great in my opinion, New Disney is all 3D usually, not all my type of thing. Still cool how they did this!

Anonymous said...

with that much hair always laying on the ground getting dirt bugs in it would suck and waying that much holding u back!
Anthony erb

cirkovic, daniel said...

@Guither, Nick

I don't think you could fit hair in a shower. Probably you'd have to wash it in a river. Swimming would be a mess. The whole pool would be covered in hair. It would not be fun at all. Fairy tales never takae reason into perspective.

Dupont, Noah said...

@Gorrasi,Josh
Yeah it would be kind of fun when you think about it, it reminds me of Courage The Cowardly Dog, one of the episodes where Eustace's mom takes Murial to that factory to grow a heck of a lot of hair. Its funny how your comment is the only one that reminded me of that. Anyways, the cleaning process would be horrid! Combing all of that?!

gaddis,breanna said...

thats alot of hair. i dont know who someone could could do anything. it would most likely be tangled because it would take acouple hours to brush the whole thing. they said that the hairs are like springs and how they bounce and move.

rentz,monica said...

@ ally

I agree it would be cool to have 72 ft of hair but after a few days it would get heavy.

Schwab,Izzy said...

that was very interesting... having that much hair must be a pain. im sure i would get pretty annoyed... and imagine washing it! that must use 2 bottles of shampoo, or more!!!!! woo! that would cost lots of money... and in reality walking around and everything you would really just have a bunch of knots in your hair!!!! ;)

Raines,Katrina said...

i think it would be heard to move around woth 72ft of hair.i heard that tangled was good from my necise sophia.sophia is 3 years old.

Anonymous said...

josh parsons- That would be insane to have 72 feet long hair!It would be hard to move that way.

kallmeyer, bridget said...

To have 72 feet of hair, it would be really heavy and get dirty really fast from being dragged on the ground.
The physics of hair is that it is not very heavy in the cartoon as it is in real life.

Tchase said...

OMG i wpuld do everything with that hair i wish i had long hair like that. it would be so coool

Taylor's blog spot said...

well i wasnt here when we did this but now that i've read a couple of comments i agree it would be very hard when you were in a fight and man i bet that would hurt

Sturwold, Kaylee said...

I would not like to have 72 ft of hair i would stay inside because while you are walking it could get dirty with leaves and stuff

Anonymous said...

I would think it would be heavy! Like, carrying it around all the time. And it would get caught in stuff and look nasty because it would always be dragging on the ground...
_Sara Voigt

Anonymous said...

I agree with jake tedsco having 72 ft long hair would suck and washing it would take i think 8 hours.
andrew reis,