MPC helps Evian make Skating Babies

evian-skatingbabiesMPC helped Evian make their latest commercial where a group of choreographed roller-skating babies dance to The Sugar Hill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight.  They filmed 134 different babies and then matched live-action heads with CG bodies over motion tracked data.

MPC’s team of animators used Autodesk Maya to create the baby skaters’ bodies.  To ensure the babies appear fully realistic, it was important to carefully match movements, paying special attention to interaction between the shoulders, neck and head.  To help achieve this, full CG babies were created and their heads were replaced later by the live action versions from the shoot by MPC’s compositing team led by Ludo Fealy.

via Evian, Skating Babies.

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  1. July 4th, 2009 at 02:51 | #1

    Here’s a link to the clip on youtube for those who would actually like to see it :)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ5tUzKeTXI

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  2. July 17th, 2009 at 20:06 | #2

    this video makes me want to get up and exercise for some reason

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  3. October 25th, 2009 at 07:05 | #3

    Haha! This is a funny commercial and also you’re really have to watch it to believe!

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  4. July 3rd, 2009 at 10:07 | #4

    MPC helps Evian make Skating Babies http://u.mavrev.com/h3l2

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  5. July 8th, 2009 at 22:09 | #5

    Gaping at the Roller Babies. Here’s how they did it: http://bit.ly/BdMdq

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