Hi ! I'am searching for bellydancer animation poses for daz3d victoria 2 & 3. Can someone help me ?

Bellydancer animation poses. A great idea!

There is a set of belly dancer poses that you can tweak and assemble into an animated pose set available at PoserPros, I believe.

Just be ready to do a -lot- of research, tweaking, and experimenting. Watch a lot of bellydance, choose your form, and then see just what your chosen model can actually do. Generic animations are going to be almost impossible to produce, simply because each and every model has slightly different bones and joint pivots. Not to mention the fact that a lot of body areas simply can not replicate the moves (the actual 'belly wave' could only be simulated with magnets, as it is almost totally a muscle effect, with no skeletal structure in motion to produce it....save for the spinal curving, and the only Poser model with the spinal articulation to actually pull that one off is the DAZ articulated skeleton). The poses may be a good place to start, but in addition to flexibility, you will have to keep velocity in mind, as well. Many of the dance movements, while sinuous, also have elements where motions occur with sharp rapidity. A spline interpolation would make the movement 'mushy', for lack of a better term. You also need to pay a great deal of attention to the hands and feet, and no one has ready made motion files for those. Keyframe animation is your only choice there.

There's a pose set over at DAZ for V2, nice and cheap if you're a PC member. Still poses only, though, no animation or BVH files (that I know of).

ooooooooooooo neat. I am a bellydancer myself, and I've often thought of using poser as a basic start to coreography. The basic thing to do is to realize that when you focus on the dance, every part of the body is seperate from every other part. Hips move indipendantly from the ribcage, from the shoulders, from the arms. Other than that, basic movements show each body part doing a circle in every imagionable direction, "bumps" which are just sticking the body part out in any direction, and shimmies, which is moving the body part back and forth very rapidly. For example a hip circle could go up and down, foreward and backward, and both clockwasue and counterclockwise. If you need more help, let me know and I will work into poser.

as for the tummy ripple the everyone seems to like, I might be able to work something out, It's all about muscles that I'm not sure exist in poser figures.

Every try is better as nothing !

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