How Animals Dance (When You're Not Looking)

1University of Washington  2UC Berkeley
We capture the hidden art of animal dance, and expose it for the first time ever to the human eyes!
APT. 🎵
Can't Stop Feeling 🎵
Uptownfunk 🎵

Dance with similar poses

Bumblebee 🎵
Rasputin 🎵

How it works


TL;DR: Starting from a small set of generated keyframes, e.g., a marmot in various poses, our method generates an animal dance video that follows a specified choreography pattern, extracted from a reference dance video.

Acknowledgements

Snowball the cockatoo, a real bird that can dance
Inspired by Snowball the cockatoo, who can perform up to 14 distinct dance movements in response to different musical cues, our goal in this project is to generate music synchronized, highly structured, 30 second+ long various animal dance videos.

We also would like to thank Tong He and Baback Elmieh for helpful discussions and feedback.