Darcal opened this issue on Nov 16, 2007 · 10 posts
Darcal posted Fri, 16 November 2007 at 11:23 AM
At the moment I'm forum administrator of a drum n bass internet radio station called Krisis DnB which has a java chatroom with animated logos that can be used by typing in certain words. I believe these need to be GIF files for it to work, which it does very well.
Well, the other day I showed my latest DAZ Studio image to DJ MX, one of the founders of the station and he liked it so much it gave him the idea to have a new dancing girl logo for the chatroom. There's one already but it's just a 2D anime style dancing girl, so he thought I could try and create a 3D animated GIF using DS and V4.
Firstly, I'm not sure if you can even export to a GIF in DS as it's only just dawned on me and I haven't checked yet. But if you can then I'd probably/definitely need a V4 compatible dance animation preset, as I can't really dance myself and wouldn't know where to start. lol
It'd need to be a fairly sexy dance, but not like a stripper, just cool looking. The GIF would only be a few seconds and looped to make it continuous. Also it'd only be 200x200 pixels at the most, because it's for a chatroom.
I've been looking on this site and DAZ3D and I noticed there's a couple of motion packs for sale that might be appropriate. One is called Motion Pack 1 which apparently includes a gogo dance which may be suitable and the other is a walk designer for V4, which I could maybe edit to create a simple dance.
The thing is though, I haven't got Poser yet and would need to do it in DS. Could anyone who knows about animation in DS and even the 2 motion packs I mentioned please help? Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Cheers.