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MoM Dance Party

Ministry of Motion3D2023

A test of the studio's own characters rebuilt as 3D rigs, made to dance so they could be checked from a wide range of angles.

An in-house test of the studio’s own branded characters, rebuilt in 3D from the original 2D designs. 3D rigs are much more complicated than 2D ones, so a dance routine was the way to prove the characters worked and looked right from a wide range of angles. Each rig has controls for the body, head, hands and feet, with handles for the elbows and knees.

The making of MoM Dance Party

Window captures

3D viewport with two characters mid-dance, a girl with teal hair and a boy with dark hair, their rig controls drawn as coloured wireframe shapes around them and the studio badge behind, with the object list and coordinates panels on the right

3D viewport split into four views: a character with rig controls in perspective, the chequered dance floor from above, the camera and character wireframes from the side, and a group of characters from the front

3D viewport showing the whole set from above: the dance floor, the surrounding light strips, the studio badge on the wall and the camera path, with the characters small in the middle

Animation build

Behind the scenes breakdown

Behind the scenes crane shot

Behind the scenes stills

Black and white wireframe render of a character mid-dance in front of the studio badge on a grid floor

Rendered still of a girl with teal hair and a boy with dark hair dancing on a black and white light-up chequered floor

Flat colour render pass of a dancing character on a multicoloured chequered floor, each surface in its own pastel colour

Grey clay render of the two characters dancing in front of the studio badge, before colour or texture

Wide shot of the dark dance floor set with neon light strips, the studio badge in neon on the wall, a mirror ball, the group of characters in the middle and the camera crane at the right

Final render of six characters dancing on the lit chequered floor under a mirror ball, the neon studio badge behind them

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