Fantastique: Dance

Hey! Here I am writing my first post on blogspot.

I'm currently on a traditional animation course called fantastique, in Melies: escola de cinema, 3d e animação.

On this post I bring you an animation that my friends and i did for the course.
We animated a dance originaly performed by Forsythe to a Parov's song called Cat Groove:

That's the reference



Then we´ve split the whole thing into smaller videos of about 4 seconds each.
And so I've ended up with this:

Untitled from Patrick Botton on Vimeo.

Then I made a 2D animation through the Straight ahead technique while watching the reference. the animation has 30fps and we held each frame so they would repeat once before the next drawing (so we have 15 draws per sec considering each draw is shown twice):

Untitled from Patrick Botton on Vimeo.

And while I waited to the final composition to be ready, I made a 3D animation with the Morpheus Rigg, using the same part of the reference.
The difference was mainly the technique I used.
For the 3D I watched the video and identifyed the key frames, and studyed how things flows, and so I passed that on to Maya:

Untitled from Patrick Botton on Vimeo.

And finally the final composition of our work:



Congratilations to all involved for the great job!
Special Thanks to Professor Carlos Avelino, to Parov e to Forsythe.

Till next time

:)