The "Dancing Baby," also called "Baby Cha-Cha," is a 3D animated dance animated animation. It quickly became a media phenomenon and one of the first viral videos in the second half of the 1990s.
Video Dancing baby
History
The phenomenon of "Baby Dancing" refers to the animation given by a baby performing a cha-cha type of dance. It originated as a collection of experimental and file testing data, finally released in the fall of 1996 as a sample product source file (sk_baby.max) with a 3D character animation software product "Character Studio", used with 3D Studio Max (both products from Kinetix/Autodesk). Original sample source files are produced and prepared by the original Character Studio development team (Michael Girard, Susan Amkraut, John Chadwick, Paul Bloemink, John Hutchinson, Adam Felt) in Unreal Pictures and Kinetix/Autodesk, among several other sample files. Cha-cha animation was created using "Biped" animation system from Character Studio by Robert Lurye and Michael Girard. The 3D model of the human baby was added later by the development team as one of the "leather" characters for the given animation. The original "Toddler with Diaper" model # VP5653 was built by, and belongs to, Viewpoint Datalabs, with most of the skinning and rigging performed by John Chadwick using the "skin"/deformation system in Character Studio, and the final edits by John and members the Autodesk development team. After the first pre-release app from 3D baby models to cha-cha animation (and from pre-release shows), Kinetix/Autodesk employees realized that it was fun to watch babies dance cha-cha rather than just walking; this helps ensure the selection of 'baby dancing' as a sample file for the inaugural launch of Character Studio and for demonstration videos in product promotion.
Animation from original baby dance data consists of physics models that are researched and adapted to automate animations together with keyframes animated interpolation manually generated and synthesized by the "Biped" system of the Character Studio product. Contrary to popular misunderstandings, there is no original Dancing Baby animated data created using motion capture.
After the 3D source files were released to the public with the Character Studio product (Autumn 1996) users and animators were able to create their own video clips from the original 'dance' animated dancers (sk_baby.max) and circulate them through the Compuserve (internet) forum, World Wide Web ( commercial and personal websites), and in unlimited print and e-mail advertising. Such activity proliferated most significantly from royalty-free user access (to Windows users) to and rendering users from 3D dancing baby source files for use on the internet and on broadcast television through several news, advertisement and even comic programming editors in local, national (US) ), and various international markets.
In late 1996, web developer John Woodell created a highly compressed gif animation from the source movie, as part of a movie-to-gif process demo. Woodell then publishes gifs to his employees' web pages from the Internet startup where he works. The animated gifs then mushroomed to many other websites, and then began appearing in a vast array of mainstream media, including television dramas (eg Ally McBeal), commercials, and music videos between 1997 and 1998.
Maps Dancing baby
Modify
Variations to the original animation are then produced by many animators, by modifying the sk_baby.max sample file animation or the baby model itself, including "drunk babies", "baby rasta", "baby samurai", and others. However, nothing has become popular on the Internet as an original file, and the most popular use of Dancing Baby is virtually unchanged from the original characters and animations.
Appearance in mainstream media
The Dancing Baby animations spread quickly in popular web forums, individual websites, international e-mail, video demos, commercials, and finally mainstream television. The most significant baby awareness increased when featured on CBS comic drama series, CNN, and Fox's Ally McBeal . The animation was featured on several episodes of Ally McBeal as a recurring hallucination, showing metaphors for Ally's biological clock tick. At the event, curiously accompanied by the cover of Blue Swede from the song B. J. Thomas "Hooked on a Feeling." Various commercial ads feature Baby Dancing animations to international markets that continue the mainstream media attention. The special manifestation of this video, tied to a song, is widely distributed and referred to as "Ugachaka (or Oogachaka ) Baby."
More examples of Baby Dancing are used in the mainstream media below.