Welcome to the World, Little One

On 11/11/2022, my husband and I welcomed our first baby, Ada, to the world. I wanted to create a 3D short sequence to announce her arrival on my work social media platforms. However little did I know how much work it involves and how little time I would have after the baby arrives. Fast forward six plus months later, I finally can release the video into the wild.

Some bits and bobs during production.

One of the challenges is rigging up the baby mobile. I originally set it up to work with dynamic. As you can see from this test, it gives such natural delay during the spin.

As anything with dynamic goes, dealing with the sticky and intersecting problems prove to be not the best route to go with the time frame I had.

Eventually I ended up reworking my approach to the baby mobile by rigging the whole things with bones. Yes… I ended up hand keyframed all the interaction. It took a while (between putting down my baby for naps and muster up any little energy I have at the end of the day.) but I’m very happy with the result.

Thank you for reading this far. Here are Oreo and Cookie, my two other fur babies that are forever my muses.