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BlenRig the Dwarf, Dancing

Bart ·

BlenRigJuan Pablo Bouza has finished a two-minute animation of his freely downloadable character rig, BlenRig, dancing to a jazzy tune. BlenRig is a nude male dwarf, so if you’re offended by this kind of thing, well, go do something else :)

Juan Pablo writes on BlenderArtists:

HI all, well, I finished my first animation using Blenrig. Hope you like it. It’s done in Blender, and ORB for the displacement map baking.

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There many things that could surely be better, like the hair, too stiff. But I was in a hurry, I wanted to make it for the Siggraph call. By the way, I think I didn’t make it…. Besides, I wanted to finish the animation and deliver the first BlenRig results to the community, and the rendering was really slow, so I decided not to mind about certain details.

Downloads (21MB XVID AVI):

It’s an amazing piece of work. My only critique would be that after a while, the animation is a bit out of sync with the music and BlenRig’s facial expression doesn’t really match the dance. Apart from that, it’s one of the smoothest and most natural character animations I’ve seen in Blender.

Author Bart
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.
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