Backstory:
Over the holidays I got engaged to my best friend of five years, but before I popped the question I wanted to showcase our life together up until this point. We met that night on the dance floor, and little did I know she’d soon become my forever dancing buddy. This animation was played on our home theater projector and when it was finished I got down on one knee. (Not shown here, we’re keeping this video private :D)
I could never have made this deadline if it wasn’t for Mixamo’s great dancing motion capture, as well as supplying all of the amazing background characters. This would have taken me years if I had to create and animate all this from scratch.
Our two characters I did make myself, however. Everything from sculpting, retopology, texturing, facial animation and expression shape keys was done by me. I also created all the environments from scratch as well as layout, lighting, cinematography, compositing, sound design/mix, and editing. I had trouble finding a score that fit well, so I cut up the score from Disney’s “Paperman” short film (Don’t sue me Disney, I’m not monetizing this video, just sharing :D)
Congratulations! And best of luck and happiness to you both on your future together. Great animation too, I can see the emotion and feelings you have for each other. Very nice!
Thanks for sharing this special occasion with us. The animation is heartwarming. You can kind of see the real people behind these models even though we don’t know them personally. It’s kind of refreshing to see regular people.
