3D Bender Dancing

because no 3d animator has ever recreated a character dancing.... Hah. not one of my most original pieces, bender, from futurama dancing to Louis Armstrong's St. Louis Blues. I modeled, rigged, textured, and animated him for use as a more up to date portfolio piece for my art school apps. I doubt I'll find the time/desire to finish it.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Bender
• Futurama
• 3d
• Animation
• Cartoon
• Cel
• Shading
• toon
• rendering
• MentalRay
• Max
• 3dsmax

[thebigboss1212]

How did you animate the eyes?

[Show621]

@thebigboss1212 the same as you would any other character. There's lots of books out there that can explain that better than me. Or do you mean how did I rig them?

[thebigboss1212]

@Show621

I thought it would be different since he haves no eyelids...

[Show621]

@thebigboss1212 he has eye lids, I just had to rig them differently so they would always face the camera (otherwise angry eyes might look confused if we looked at them from a different angle), but once I did I could animates the emotions in his lids and his blinks like any normal character

[rocklobter]

cell shading?

[Show621]

@rocklobter yeah, in mental ray.

[lancerevo1994]

Bender looks so pissed while he's dancing! Excellent!

[Show621]

haha, are you seriously that convinced? I definitely created this from scratch in 3D. I wish I could get my 2D animations this clean.

[ManservantPablo]

Is that an intentional blur or did you bork the framrate or something?

I am trying to do this with some characters.. Ive been afraid to step into character modeling and rigging because its so complicated, but.. yeah - inspiration here :)

[underlinedbluetext]

i'm back baby!

[karadanianoI]

how do you set the cell shading in mental ray?

[IrvingHand]

Everyone knows Bender likes folk music... Spluh!

[rocklobter]

@Show621 nice looks sweet.