Thread: Burlesque in the virtual World

Virtual Burlesque – beautiful animation here but no match for the real shows [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jytskhm60Z8"]YouTube - Virtual Burlesque[/ame] Just got this link through Twitter

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It's not bad, but it's a bit sloppy in the animation dept, whoever did it doesn't know how to get their animations to interact with the scenery (skirt dropping stright through desktop, feet going through floor) or even interact with itself, (hair keeps passing through arm/body) but not a bad effort for a beginner

To be fair, it should be pointed out that Virtual Burlesque was a recording of a working burlesque company in the virtual world game, Second Life. These are not simply the creation of an animator placing a few toons about and trying to slap a video together. Each dancer in this machinima is a real person who spends hours each week rehearsing, choreographing and setting their act. The limitations you've highlighted are limitations within the game, and part of our work is to minimise the impact of those limitations, which is largely done with special effects and, we hope, personality.

I am compelled to defend the work of our director Lowe Runo, who is not at all a "beginner", and who worked dilligently to avoid as many of these issues as he could and still maintain the integrity of our intention, which was to show our performances to and within the Second Life platform.

Yes sorry about that I realised after I'd posted that the problems I'd highlighted were probably down to the software being used rather than anything else, I guess I'm spoilt, I have a lot of very expensive software on my computers and am used to dealing with very picky commercial clients who wouldn't accept my work if it was like that.

I do like the concept though and whilst my critisisms might seem a bit harsh I'm perfectly happy to agree that the actual performances come across quite well