Lion Dance

Concept, Blender recreate and the live engine frame from one cycle. A festival lion troupe at dusk: the AI concept (left), the code-modelled lion head with its layered mane discs, bulbed brow and hinged jaw (centre), and the piece running in Unity where you drum on the beat to keep the crowd roaring and hold SHIFT for a rolling flourish that spends stamina (right). Seven lantern lights swell with the crowd meter, so the score is readable in the scene itself. The cycle was also the lab first test of Unity own AnimationClip system — a runtime-authored clip drives one lion head with an identical hand-driven head beside it as the control.