DANCE TILL YOU DIE — Hair Simulation & Physics Experimentation

“Dance Till You Die” is a hypnotic 3D loop featuring a humanoid character immersed in endless motion—covered in vividly simulated fur, caught in a groove that never ends. The name says it all: rhythm meets surrealism in this stylized dance loop.
The Strategy
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Hair system exploration using Cinema 4D
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Experimentation with physics, gravity, and secondary motion
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Creating a seamless loop that blends fluid motion with organic behavior
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Pushing Redshift to render hair with color depth and softness
Impact & Outcomes
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Hair Sim: Full-body fur setup with custom dynamics and stiffness tweaks
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Looping: Motion designed to start and end on identical keyframes
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Lighting/Rendering: Rendered in Redshift for speed and realism, with subtle HDR lighting to enhance depth
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Post Work: Color grading and gif compression for infinite looping
Summary
This loop was both a technical warm-up and a creative flex. It let me push what I knew about hair systems, explore more natural physical behavior, and make something mesmerizing that keeps viewers locked in a visual rhythm.