Ashanti: Dance Hall

sketchfab

Welcome to the Dance Hall! Made from pure experimentation, I set out to craft some really nice cloth animation and fake an image sequence. I encountered a multitude of issues getting everything set up and exported correctly. This was the most tedious Sketchfab upload I've made to date. I had to bake 5 cloth simulations into 151 objects each, then load them into a morpher and animate them turning on and off for each frame of all 5 cloth objects. That took a few days but was totally worth it! Essentially, I performed a similar procedure for the Mirror image sequence. I rendered out from a camera in Max and gave it some After Effects treatment. I created 151 materials to house each frame, applied them to 151 objects that scaled in and out of view sequentially to make the perfect optical illusion. The problem was Sketchfab only accepts a maximum of 100 materials, so I cut the frames in half. Can you spot the difference?