O.K. So we watched "Brave" again the other night. Best PIXAR movie to date! Kudos to the studios for getting the arrow flight down pat and adding little subtle things that most animators would have left out, like self nocks and wrapped fletching. My daughter says "Oh look, she even has the little scar on her face where the fletching cut her cheek."
I'm not going to criticize the free spirited young lass for carving on her bow's belly. It's obviously a superior bow wood and could handle it. I'm not going to chastise her for adorning the limb tips with unnecessary weight. I digress. We come to the part in the movie where her mother throws Merida's bow in to the fireplace, then quickly plucks it out after the string has burned through and she realizes what she's done. My wife says "Oh she's ruined that bow now." I say "Oh no, it's just tempered now. Probably picked up 4 or 5 pounds"
I say they just wipe it off, put on a new string, re-wrap the handle, and try it out. What say ye?
