Disco Masked Dancer

Five masquerade-masked dancers groove on a lit checkerboard floor under a spinning mirror ball, swept by colored spotlights. The clip is a real-time 3D scene built in Three.js, rendered offscreen frame by frame through a headless WebGL browser and encoded to an H.264 video — an 8-second loop that plays seamlessly.

Each dancer is an articulated figure (hips → spine → chest → head, with hinged shoulders, elbows, hips, and knees) animated by a beat-synced groove: vertical bounce, weight-shifting hip sway, knee bends, head bob, and three arm styles — hands in the air, sequential waves, and one-arm pumps. Sequined PBR outfits and metallic carnival masks catch the moving lights.

The render pipeline pushes for a cinematic look:

Technique	Effect
ACES filmic tone mapping	Film-like highlight roll-off and color
PBR materials + image-based lighting	Realistic sequins, skin, and metal masks
PCF soft shadows	Grounded contact shadows from a key light
Faceted mirror ball + 8 sweeping spotlights	Classic moving disco color
Unreal Bloom	Glow on lights, masks, and the dancefloor
Exponential fog	Atmospheric depth into the dark room