Talk:Bangarang/@comment-25225577-20190612032826

Guys, I think this dancer might actually be a motion capture / 3D animated one like Shaky Shaky was.

Here's the discussion I had with other people a lot smarter than me:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AfterEffects/comments/bz5y3w/how_did_they_map_the_shapes_so_perfectly_on_the/

tl;dr I think it would've been impossible to get the designs to show up so perfectly on the dancer's clothing had it been an video of an IRL person. Additionally, check out the way the hoodie strings don't move, the way the fabric around the knees never stretches out, and the way the shoes move in 3D space (when the camera moves) in a way that they couldn't if they were from a 2D video.

The going theory is that the dancer is a 3D model with really, really impressively humanlike motion capture and really, really realisttic fabric simulations on the hoodie. If that's true, then this is blockbuster film-level animation work and the JD team just up and let us believe it's a real dude!

But this is all speculation. Can someone message Isaiah Rashaad and ask how this was done? (I don't use Instagram.)