Unholy Mating Dance of the Zbrush Base Mesh!!

On the cold and lonely tundra in the middle of the antarctic serengetti, a bizarre ritualistic dance begins to unfold... the Unholy Mating Dance of the Zbrush Base Mesh!




This piece is my first experiment using CAMERA PROJECTION in Maya and Photoshop. I started with a single still photograph of an iceberg, and added a camera movement THROUGH the image. The dancing characters are "base meshes" which I modeled in Maya using polygonal modeling, with intent to bring into Zbrush for further detailing. I have been told you cannot animate a mere base mesh, because its evenly quad-ed topology is not conducive to character animation. However, with this peice I have proven that you can indeed animate a base mesh. yee haw.




"Its an economy of polygons, "

Animation, rigging, camera projection, matte painting, by: Michael Taflove
Music by: The Birthday Massacre - "Blue"

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Maya
• camera
• projection
• photoshop
• iceberg
• dancing
• autodesk
• gnomon
• motion
• capture
• birthday
• massacre
• Michael
• Taflove
• matte
• painting

[cowsquid]

I mainly use Autodesk Maya--- also Pixologic Zbrush, 2D3 Boujou, After Effects, and Phtotshop

[OwnNewWay]

So romantic.

[605Scorpion]

lol @ that fatass at the end

[Trilink2]

@jjvader123 lol XD

[jjvader123]

I saw fat jesus in the bqackground

[35zaba]

i want that song

[Astronesthes]

After those moves? Id hit it.

[farnium]

Wow!

[LiLV3XX08]

lol they dance funny

[alsterv]

what the heck do you use to make this its so awsome!