Muscle girl animation (Amateur Ballet)

Last Updated on 23/11/2025

Amateur ballet — it is a muscle girl animation based on mocap data with a custom rig in which athletic girl Veda performs several ballet movements. This animation was made a couple of years ago but, in my opinion, is still relevant.

The main task of the creation of this video of amateur ballet was checking and improvement of the 3ds Max 2012 rig setup, which I have created for this character. Dance was the best thing I could discover for this task. You can observe in this dance a number of poses with high-lifted hands or poses with bent knees, which are especially complicated at the creation of the rig and at the same time the best demonstration of how well I coped with the task.

Some of the tools used to create this rig are no longer available, such as the SkinFX plugin and the Mental Ray renderer, while others, like the Hair and Fur modifier and the Cloth modifier in 3ds Max, are either unusable or broken. If you wanna know how it all came together, I’ll throw in some links to the original articles that were up when this rig was created.

Veda Body Rig
Modification of MuscleStrand – part 1, part 2
Veda Hair

This muscle girl animation captures a lot of what I learned back in 2012 about modeling anatomical bodies, creating rig with muscles, and simulating hair and cloth. It also touches on rendering techniques and cleaning up motion capture data.

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