TITLE: Red Dog Danzing (lb-danz)
NAME: Lou Bruce
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: lou_bruce@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: N/A
TOPIC: Dancing
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: lbdanz.mpg
ZIPFILE: lbdanz.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    Blender 2.33

TOOLS USED: 
    Blender 2.33 for modeling and animation.
         Image Composer for the Poster
          TMPEGnc for adding sound and converting to Mpeg

CREATION TIME: 
    18 days

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD Athlon XP2500, 512MB ram

ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 


This is a cartoon dog doing a Michael Jackson music video.


VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS: 
    Windows Media Player

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 


The dog was inspired by a rendering  I found on the web. (My apologies I don't
remember where).
I had no idea what to do for the topic. Then I remembered this wonderful music
video by
Cemre Ozkurt that I saw at http://www.3dluvr.com/cemre/animation.htm# entitled
"Mustafa Jackson".

I rigged the dog with inverse kinematics for both the front and rear legs. Big
mistake, the front legs should have been forward kinematics. Towards the end,
the front legs just got out of control. I intended to go back and fix some of
the glitches but I ran out of time.

I set up my work space with a model view on one side and a sequencer view on the
other side and loaded the Ozkurt video into the sequencer. Then I just advanced
a frame at a time and adjusted the camera, Lights and skeleton to resemble the
video.

It was tough enough making a quadraped act like a biped without the added
problem of inverse kinematic arms that couldn't mimic the poses without
flipping into some pretty strange positions.

Anyway I tweaked poses for two days after the initial rendering and finally had
to be satisfied with what you see here.