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We came up with a fantastic strap line for our event in Austin, Texas: "Okay, Austin here...Houston, we have a solution." Our talented graphic designer unearthed a perfect stock illustration to use, but the challenge was to bring it to life.

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Leveraging cel shaders and Cinema 4D's sketch'n'toon feature, we found it surprisingly straightforward to achieve the desired look with an off-the-shelf 3D astronaut model. However, time was of the essence, and anyone who's worked on character animation knows it can be quite time-consuming.

Unfortunately, the stock motion capture options, like Mixamo, didn't quite offer the actions we needed. That's when we turned to Move.ai, and here's where it gets fun – I stepped in and acted out the required actions myself, seamlessly applying them to the Cinema 4D motion system to blend everything together.

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It was a tight schedule, but we were determined to make our vision come to life!