The idea for the animation developed over time, and each iteration it became more and more simplistic. The original idea came from a Moby song 'Feeling So Real' from Everything is Wrong and would have incorporated a model of an office building, cubicles in fact, along with chairs and furniture. The original idea was for the robot to be a menial janitor in a large office building, when one day while its cleaning a particular cube it discovers a music CD, listen to it and is overcome with the urge to dance. It dances around the office, spinning and sliding around on the chairs, singing into the back of a mop, etc. However, since this was my first project, and I wasn't much of a modeler, I made the story and scene simpler.

The model was made in Ray Dream Studio 5.0 and posed in Poser 3/4. As you can see, their is some inconsistency in the model geometry, as best can be seen in the chest and hips. Notice that the toes have many polygons, more than needed. However, where the model was in error provided a valuable learning experience. In fact, some extra detail was added, like the mouth was made with a texture map and morph targets to allow for lip movement (which was never used). Reflecting back on the design, there are many things I would do differently, but the result would be much the same.

The animation was rendered entirely in Poser and edited together in Adobe Premier. The original was rendered at 640x480 at 30fps. The model was made in Ray Dream Studio, textured in Adobe Photoshop with help from UV Mapper, and constructed to use the same hierarchy as Poser figures so it could be incorporated into Poser. Dance Studio was used to help produce the dance sequences by creating BVH files. Compression was initailly achieved using avi2mpg1 (DOS freeware) and Real Producer. Additional updates were made as my expereince grew.