Animation in GIF, (no synchro, but larger image with only 300k) and MIDI sound Boquinha da Garrafa Cia do Pagode If the AVI file starts to play, press pause in above panel.	ANIMATION IN AVI (synchronized, better resolution, 1 Mb) To stop or restart, click below from here, and above from here. Pity it takes too long to download... HERE IN REALPLAYER!! (Low res for faster moves, but IN REAL TIME, it brings fresh images all the time, no interrupts, no delays)

TALE OF THE AMAZING DANCING BABY

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Aqui a versão em Português!

Starting Point

The fun kidding above fits well to show a comparison between the three basic methods of animation on the internet: Animated GIF, whichs is part of the webpage; the video AVI(or Mov) which needs to be downloaded during half an hour or so, before being seen; and the RealVideo, that starts screening the video just a few seconds after one clicks the LINK. But we can take the opportunity to review a phenomenum which is enchanting the internet. A foolish thing, an amazing foolish thing:

In 1997, nobody knew who he was, the anonymous author who made the baby animation in a new software that would be launched in a Fair in England(see below comments on the claimed paternity). What everybody got to know by that time was that this animation was/is in fact a very simple resource which is bundled together with the software Character Studio (the 3D model and the movements options come ready as a demo - any one may joystick it as a game), but that specific little dancing baby circulated as an attachment through USENET and became famous as the "BabyCha.avi". People found it very funny, hilarious, the little baby.

However the then-anonymous author had not produced a soundtrack, and in May last year a homepage was created for the Dancing Baby with a worldwide content, whose challenge was to know who would be able to put the best music synchronized with the baby dancing. Several participants popped up from all over the planet, and the winner clip can be seen in the Baby's Content Page.

Brazil, as far as we know, did not take part in the content, but the site CINEMABRASIL lended the baby a bossa-nova for him to enjoy, and it seems to be loving the rythm.

By the way, in our First Content of Digital Cinematography for Internet, one among the participants presented a distinct clip working on the same baby model, probably using the same software demo, but with movements completely different from the animation that became worldwidely famous.

ENTER VOTING PAGE WITHOUT WAITING FOR THE BABY

The bossa-nova is "ONDA" (Wave) from our maestro and music master Tom Jobim. We thank Paulo Jobim for having caught the free spirit of Internet and the non-profit aim of this Cultural Project, allowing us to make this homage to his father, who contributes here to help cybernetic passionate discussions get a little more "Brazilianlike":

     WAVE  (Tom Jobim)  

     Vou te contar, os olhos já não podem ver
     Coisas que só o coração pode entender.
     Fundamental é mesmo o amor
     É impossível ser feliz sozinho.
     O resto é mar, é tudo que eu nem sei contar
     São coisas lindas que eu tenho pra te dar.
     Vem de mansinho a brisa e me diz
     É impossível ser feliz sozinho.

     Da primeira vez é a cidade
     Da segunda, o cais, a eternidade.
     Agora eu já sei da onda que se ergueu no mar
     E das estrelas que esquecemos de contar.
     O amor se deixa surpreender
     Enquanto a noite vem nos envolver.


Would you like to see the baby very big and in slow-motion? 






The recent version of the bossa-nova dancing baby

Details from the model building for the software by VIEWPOINT Datalabs:




Alternatively, you may experience the novelties of site CINEMA BRASIL:
Download REAL PLAYER, in case you haven't done this yet.
Click here below and save the file to a directory (C:\REAL or C:\ )
and then execute it through Start/Execute of Windows.
Program is FREE and will install itself, since you press Enter for all.
With this player, you may enjoy radios and TV-Nets all over the world.













P.S.: In 1998, a few guys say they are the fathers of the dancing baby.
Although we have not confirmed this information yet,
the credits for the paternity are:

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The dancing baby was created with 3DStudio Max and Character Studio
from Kinetix with demo files that ship with the product.

BabyCha.avi (The famous internet version):

Animation by Michael Girard, Robert Lurye & Ron Lussier

Deformation/Enveloping by John Chadwick.

Baby model by Viewpoint Datalabs -- Produced by Ron Lussier

(The version of the baby for Ally McBeal was done by EncoreVideo
and Liquid Light)

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