Aalborg's Bull is Living Art

Here is one of our experiments on bringing art to life. In this short film, we looked at Aalborg's bull - a famous statue in the city center and recorded a few videos. Then we modelled and textured the bull, so one cannot clearly tell which one is the original statue :) After animating him, he can now dance and show off his moves to the public.

Behind the scenes, the original bull had to be removed from the video recordings, and the dancing bull was placed at the same place through use of camera tracking in Blender. This gave us some challenges especially when a bus was passing by and covering the bull.

Making the bull look right and move required many tryouts, but in the end reached a good result. Here is one the renders at the beginning. See how the bull changed since.