Engineers have been doing this kind of thing for a very long time. Animators just take lots of shortcuts because they can, but we’re probably at the point (if

Engineers have been doing this kind of thing for a very long time. Animators just take lots of shortcuts because they can, but we’re probably at the point (if it doesn’t exist already) where you can animate with the actual properties of real materials with different models appropriate for the specific material. An engineer designing a product can certainly run it through a simulation that accurately predicts elastic and plastic deformation as well as fracture and other failure modes.