The music video I chose is from the Rhythm game, Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA. While there are many different versions of the game, the specific game i pulled from is Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F. All the music videos are played in the background of the game.
I chose one of my favorite songs, “The MMORPG Addicts Anthem”.
The animation studio who did most of the animating for this game is Marza Animation Planet, a japanese based animation studio who also is under video game company, SEGA. Founded in 2005, they do CGI for SEGA video games and some movies, notably the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.
They collaborated with Crypton Future Media, the creators of the Vocaloid software that helps make the songs in the games, the songs in the games are made by composers who used the software to make them. In order to make the music videos they start with a motion capture of a person dancing, and they CGI on top of said motion capture. The choreographer for the game would listen to the song and then make a dance to go with it, then send it to the dancer and then the dancer would send it to the animation studio.
I think that the animation studio has impacted a lot of people, they had let open the gates for people who never animated before, to try out 3D/CGI animation. I also find it unique how they use motion capture as a base for their animation.
This is important to me because its been a huge impact of my life from the music, all the way to the art and fanbase.
Work cited
https://vocaloid.fandom.com/wiki/Hatsune_Miku_-Project_DIVA-_(series)