Disco Ramen Moyai
2021 ⬤ "Flashy, stone-cold dining"
Summary
This is a model of a moyai or moai statue eating ramen while covered in a set of dancing disco lights. The lights perfectly loop because they're simply area lights in 3D space being rotated about a pivot, returning to their original positions.
Overview
There once was a Discord server with an emote of a moyai 🗿 eating a bowl of ramen 🍜. I scrambled to create fanart of the ramen moyai because it was so out of left field, resulting a 3D ramen moyai model. The moyai wasn't exactly accurate and the ramen noodles was only made with basic paths, but then I added colourful point lights and rotated them around an empty in the middle to create disco lights, which created a smooth visually-appealing animation. Some of the lights pass through the objects in their orbits, which is somewhat visible in the reflections on the ramen bowl, but it doesn't detract from the comic effect of standing in the middle of a bunch of disco lights with a literal stony face, undeterred from eating no matter how vibrant the lighting gets.
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