A Twerk of Art — Eternal Beach City
Added 2025-08-05 01:30:04 +0000 UTCAccording to my understanding, the word “twerk” has its origins in the early ‘90s before gaining more mainstream popularity in the 2000s. What about before then, though? Surely in all of human history of moving one’s butt around, someone stumbled across the notion of moving it in that particular fashion. Were flappers twerking? Perhaps some courtiers during the Middle Ages? Perchance it was performed by concubines of the Far East?
All I know is that it’s really hard to animate and possibly harder to do. I can’t know for sure, since I gave up on any performance attempts after 20 minutes of failure. The animation took a lot longer than that. Like, a whole lot. Animation is so hard, you guys. Is twerking harder? I guess I’ll have to find some twerking animators one day and find out.
Comments
Nice! And thank you!
Ty Halley
2025-09-15 12:06:17 +0000 UTCThis made me sign up - keep up with the good work ✌🏻
HarryS.Morgan
2025-09-15 09:02:57 +0000 UTCNice! Makes sense. You know, I’ve never thought about this. But I don’t think White and Asian people weren’t even around when we invented fire, the wheel, farming… even art! Man, Black people invented a lot.
Ty Halley
2025-08-24 16:03:58 +0000 UTCSome tribes and cultures in West Africa created dances that look very much like what we now know as twerking. So it came from Black people basically.
GylesNoDrama
2025-08-24 15:38:42 +0000 UTCThat’s awesome! 😎
Ty Halley
2025-08-06 03:07:31 +0000 UTCThis animation made me your patron. Fantastic work.
Icytoed
2025-08-05 11:48:11 +0000 UTC
