An egg dance is a traditional Easter game in which eggs are laid on the ground or floor and the goal is to dance among them, damaging as few as possible.
Exploring the idea of dance with an ever-present danger, we took inspiration from the capoeira dance. Using C4D we went a little abstract with this one and created a surreal dance between the human dancer and the amorphic egg.
To add realistic motion to the camera, we filmed real movements in our car park using a phone, and then used AE motion tracking to create a 3D camera with its own motion path that we could import into the C4D and use.
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LIDAR SCAN EXPERIMENTS IN MANCHESTER OFFICE
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TO CREATE NATURAL CAMERA MOVEMENTS, REAL VIDEO FOOTAGE WAS RECORDED IN THE CAR PARK AND CAMERA MOTION TRACKING CREATED IN AE
CAMERA MOVEMENT THEN IMPORTED INTO C4D TO BE USED IN FINAL VIDEO, MAKING THE PIECE FEEL MORE NATURAL
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FINAL FILM USING CAPTURED CAMERA TRACK AND LIDAR SCANNED FIGURE
WITH THE PROCESS OF SCANNING EACH OTHER AND CAPTURING CAMERA MOVEMENTS, THIS PROJECT STARTED TO BECOME TOO FOCUSED ON C4D POST PROCESSING AND WAS CUT SHORT
Polycam
We tried both Polycam and Moves to scan each other. Polycam was both the quickest and most accurate with built-in settings to reprocess the same footage with different parameters, which was very useful. However, neither app was able to provide the quality we needed.
Adobe Mixamo
We used Mixamo's auto-rigging feature to quickly rig our 3D scans, allowing us to add motion from both stock motion libraries and the motion record feature in the Moves app.
Cinema4D
We then used C4D to combine the motion tracks and camera movement into a single film. For the character, we used the animated 3D scan of Chris, rigged by Mixamo, while the egg uses the skeleton of our characters but has been sculpted to feature a single egg shell exterior.
