2nd animation that I've fully created from start to finish!
I wanted to challenge myself by attempting to animate a complex dance choreography with his peculiar body proportions, and I really learned a lot about movement and especially about weight shifting while doing so!
Him performing this choreography can be interpreted to about his fight with/for the powers that were given to him, the previous powers of his own, and his power of will. Perhaps it would make him release, with the conflict between his self as a person, and his self as an icon, representative, machine. The end can be interpreted as having a strong grip on himself again, reclaiming himself... but whatever.
Hopefully he can deliver some sort of sentimental impact to some extent despite the peculiarity of the content itself 🤣✨️
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Progress:
23.02.19. ~ 23.02.21. - fixed downloaded mesh errors, body rigging done.
23.02.21. ~ 23.03.03. - all dance movements (rigid, superficial, no depth) done. high resolution test render 1.
(back to college starting from 23.03.02. less time spent on animation.)
23.03.03. ~ 23.03.13. - stylizing and smoothing animation 80% done. face rigging done. facial animation done.
23.03.19. ~ 23.03.22. - created and adjusted stage and stage lighting.
23.03.26. - added squash and stretch. low resolution test render 2. separated view layers and data passes for compositing.
23.03.27. ~ 23.03.29. - compositing done. low resolution test render 3 for checking post-production lighting issues.
23.03.31. - adjusted shaders and post-production lighting.
23.04.01. - full resolution final render start.
23.04.10. ~ 23.04.11. - render finished (3926 frames). final color adjustments to outputted video. added intro description and watermark. uploaded video.
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Music used:
Kanye West - Selah
th-cam.com/video/6CNPg2IQoC0/w-d-xo.html
Original choreography video:
Kanye West - Selah - Choreography by Talia Favia ft Sean Lew, Kaycee Rice, Courtney Schwartz
filmed by Tim Milgram
th-cam.com/video/J6rn21b9JKU/w-d-xo.html
Model used (no rig, only the mesh and materials):
"Mario from Super Mario Odyssey" uploaded by Elite 3D
skfb.ly/oBuyY
Texture used:
Wooden floor texture
everytexture.com/everytexture-com-stock-wood-texture-00188/
Everything else is created by myself, with blender.
- The eyelashes and the top hair sprout is made by me, as they weren't in the model.
- Rigging and animating done with blender 2.81
- Shading, compositing, post-processing and rendering done with blender 3.41