The 3D source film was released to the public that same year so that animators could render their own video clips. It was developed by Michael Girard and Robert Lurye in 1996 as a sample source file for the 3D animation software package Character Studio (used in conjunction with 3D Studio Max). ![]() The Dancing Baby is just a 3D rendering of a baby in a diaper, animated to do a little dance to the opening of the song " Hooked on a Feeling" by Swedish rock band Blue Swede (featured on the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack in 2014). Now, almost 25 years after it was first created, an enterprising college student has re-rendered the original model and animation in a suitable HD format for modern displays. Sure, the rendering was crude by today's standards and-it must be said-a little creepy, but in many ways, the Dancing Baby was a proto-meme. ![]() Internet denizens of a certain age will recall with fondness the 3D animated Dancing Baby (aka "Baby Cha-Cha" and "the Oogachacka Baby") that went viral in 1996. ![]() ![]() The Dancing Baby became one of the first viral videos in the mid to late 1990s.
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