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
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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
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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.
At the peak of the Ally McBeal series, a dance group called Trubble released a song titled Dancing Baby (Ooga-Chaka) mapped well in Australia in late 1998/early 1999 and hit # 21 on the UK charts. The Dancing Baby appeared in the episode of Unhappyily Ever After with Dennis Franz as her baby. It was parodied in the opening of The House that Dick Built, episode 15 of Season 4 The 3rd Stone of the Sun, with Harry Solomon (French Stewart) as her baby. In the Celebrity Deathmatch wrestling series, during a match between Lucy Lawless and Calista Flockhart (the actress who plays Ally McBeal), a dancing baby suddenly appears in the ring with his back facing the camera. After a few moments of dancing, he turns around and is shown as Dennis Franz in a state other than a diaper; referee Mills Lane shouted at him, "I told you I did not want you in my fray, Dennis Franz!", which irritated Franz for not returning back, "Okay, tough guy." Commercial Blockbuster video, baby dance until Rick James hit, "Give It to Me Baby". The Dancing Baby was also falsified in an episode of The Simpsons, "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes", where Homer visited (and later stole from) a website featuring Jesus dancing in a movement that same as her baby. In the Millennium television series, the episode "Somehow, Satan's Behind Me" featured a demon that manifested itself in the form of a baby, dancing to the Black Flag song "My War". Writer/director Darin Morgan based the baby on his use at Ally McBeal; when she commented, "It's a frightening thing, baby it.He danced with it, and you left, 'There's something very wrong with this guy." " In the episode of Chowder , a parody of a dancing (looking rather evil) baby appears, causing everyone to panic and shout at it. In the 2002 film Life/Something Like It , Baby Dancing appeared on the scoreboard in a baseball game. Classic rock station Cincinnati, Ohio, WEBN features dancing baby dancing with the song "You Shook Me All Night Long" by AC/DC on television commercials for the station. In the episode of Family Guy entitled "McStroke", Stewie Griffin and Brian Griffin are betting on whether Stewie can be the coolest kid in high school in a week. He did it, so Brian had to email all his friends Dancing Baby videos. In 2010, Baby Dancing appeared on episode SuperNews !. By 2015, it appears in the Delta safety video. The Dancing Baby made several appearances in the award-winning Peru Videofilia Tiger (and other Viral Syndrome) movies. Video games
Some video games have included references to Baby Dancing.
- In the football match of EA Sports FIFA 99, the editor includes an animated player performing Dancing Baby dance.
- The Dancing Baby also appears in Xbox and PS2 titles, Silent Hill 4.
- The Easter Egg is in Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire where the heroes dance at the Dead Parrot Inn, mimicking the exact moves of Dancing Baby.
- In the official trailer for Stalin vs. Martian , Stalin's dance is almost the same as Dancing Baby.
- The Dancing Baby is used in the animation displayed at the end of the level in the RollerTyping game.
- In a computer game Zoo Tycoon, a gorilla will sometimes perform the same dance as a dancing baby.
- In building a leaked alpha Half-Life, technology demo map contains a Polyrobo model, robot from robotech, used to test the poly limit on the machine will do the animation that the baby dance.
Newer appearances
The Dancing Baby is still sometimes referenced as a cultural symbol of the 1990s, or as part of a tradition dating back to its popularity. Recent appearances include:
- The baby is a recurring feature on the VH1 series I Love the 90s , and it also appears in Best Week Ever.
- In Journeyman's episode of The Year of the Rabbit, a scene from Ally McBeal with Dancing Baby appeared inadvertently in a scene made in 1997.
See also
- Internet celebrity
- Viral videos
- Lenz v. Universal Music Corp.
References
External links
- "Dancing Baby cha-chas from the Internet to the network" - Sci-Tech Story Page, CNN, Jan 1998
- Dancing Baby Internet Sites - Contains a copy of one of the original baby dance renditions
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