Finally, here´s the movie. I only shot the few new shots in the old facility. Parts of them aired live  in the German TV Show “Deutschland sucht den Superstar”, Saturday evening, 20:15 Primetime.

Let´s Dance - Video from Alexander Lehnert on Vimeo.

For the last few days, i worked on my U.F.O modell for my shortmovie project “The Big Step (AT)”.

So this is what i came up with … old, dirty, long time used 2nd hand U.F.O. ;)

After 2 evenings of learning how to rig, i just finished my first lowpoly character rig ever for my 3d animation project “The Big Step (AT)”.

Joe is now ready for animation, but i still have to rework texturing, weight maps, facial expressions/blendshapes and some minor modelling issues. The rig is the hardest part of getting a character to live so i thought of doing it now, to have something to work with.

After the rig was done, i just set up the Cinema4D internal “Visual Selector” to select my animation controllers as easy as possible.

Time is hunting me again. After some busy days, i finally got some spare time to continue with my short.

i started modelling out “Joe Average” - one of my two characters. Not final textured yet, but i just have to get the rig done first. As it´s my first time rigging a character, it´s little time consuming.

and some pictures from the rig and the user data controllers:

Hope to get Joe into motion as soon as possible. Exciting time …