From the ‘How the heck did they do that‘ department comes this nifty machinima that’s a promo for a movie called In the Hands of the Gods. The movie is about a group of football (soccer) freestylers that are trying to raise money for a trip to Buenos Aries to meet one of there idols. Looks like they took a side trip to Second Life along the way.
Hands of the Gods from Rohan Freeman on Vimeo.
The avatar animations are super smooth, created by the very popular Sine Wave animations. At least I think they are. There is nothing really posted about this video, how it ties into the movie, any possible in-world examples, or anything else for that matter. But is sure is a nice effect.
I really want to know how they got that ball to match the avatar movemenets so closely. Never seen anything like it. I have a suspiscion that the ball is actually a disguised, animated body part but I’m not sure how that would work. Any ideas?
*Update: This just in from Rohan at Sine Wave: “Hey there, actually the ball is an avatar, with a regular animation on it, moving just the hips. if you look closely you can see where the inviziprims cover the bits we couldn’t fit inside the ball.”
