Test My New Blender addon: Auto Dance Camera

Blender addon: Auto Dance Camera
Developed by me.

With this addon, you can create the whole dance animation’s camera movement with a single click.

And the generated shots are professional level like a real cameraman could do.

video:

screenshot:

Two thoughts:
You haven’t attached the add-on, or a link to it, so it can’t be tested :slight_smile:

This may sound like a criticism, which isn’t my intent. I’m genuinely trying to understand. What is the purpose of this add-on? I watched the video and read your text, and it seems like a specific set of camera motions that only work in a specific scenario. I recognize that there is some level of customization available, but at the end of the day, this is just preset camera motions you could easily keyframe. Not to mention, because this is randomness based- the shot chance parameters- you have far less control this way than you would by keyframing the camera. What am I missing here?

It seems to be mainly for the addon on Blender Market: VMD-retargeting ?? As shown in the other videos on YT… So this is a very bad kind of adverticement managment ???

Anyway the original Vocaloid (now only a virtual singer software synthesizer?) character Miku Hatsune and the [Wikipedia: MikuMikuDance]
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MikuMikuDance) are very popular and the Vocaloid Motion Data (VMD) file format is used for a very very very large community to make dancing videos… (even with very minor amount of clothes)…

The motion/movement/dancing/animaton on the other side (even used for some other things than dancing) was always and is somekind of weird to me. For something artistically gracefully like dancing i always get hickups when seeing bone breaking movements like foot going through the floor or through other bodyparts, clothes ripping into peaces and not moving with the dancer, not lips sync singing, all dancer complety in sync (and looking same expect color) etc. Even the sometimes beautifull backgrounds and clothes (if stick on the body) couldn’t …

:sweat_smile:
Ups sorry this wasn’t meant to be a rant against anything…
If you are into this then this addon may be helpful.
:person_shrugging:

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A dance animation often comes with 5000 - 7000 frames.

And you are saying you can easily create all the camera motion manually. How long that takes? And how long it takes just clicking an addon button.

If you don’t know about dance animation or don’t do that, then this is not for you.