I want to do close range combat for my upcoming RHG battle, but I find hand vs sword hard to animate. I'm hand so I need to win, but a hit with a sword can kill me. How do I animate a sword vs hand and make it a fair fight?

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I want to do close range combat for my upcoming RHG battle, but I find hand vs sword hard to animate. I'm hand so I need to win, but a hit with a sword can kill me. How do I animate a sword vs hand and make it a fair fight?

make both sticks basically immortal so that they can hit each other incomprehensible amounts of times like everyone else does
or dodge

how to fight someone with a sword, while you are unarmed, 101:

either:
- dodge the sword
- step towards the attacker when as he swings, and parry his wrists
- counterattack
- disarm

look at videos to get ideas

eg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkicPm-GnI4

Dodge and block, if his sword only has one cutting edge, whenever he swings your RHG can just stop it with his hands.

...We're just basically giving you choreography ideas, aren't we? XD

Oh hey Zanite. You're probably trying to find out how to animate Xantus fighting my character Sypher right? Because he has a sword, and your laser is epic!