dub3 card · www.dancingbaby.net
Dancing Baby (Ooga Chaka) (1996)
The original 3D animated viral phenomenon.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 5
- Rarity
- Epic
- Family
- Institutions
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- Meme Machine
What it does
On reveal: If you already have another Institutions card here, +3 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 5 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Institutions cards protect your side, and come back strong when you're losing.
The site, in 1996
A 3D-rendered baby doing a cha-cha dance, passed around as a video clip and later an animated GIF.
The model was based on a scan of a plastic doll and shipped as a sample in Autodesk's animation software. In 1997 and 1998 it turned up on Ally McBeal, in adverts and in music videos.
In 1996: Character Studio, the software it came with, was released in August. A demo had been shown at the SIGGRAPH conference the year before.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
Meme Machine: Where the jokes everyone repeated got started.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1996 page.
Put it on your site
Run Dancing Baby (Ooga Chaka), or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1996. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1996, then plays a short scene. Want Dancing Baby (Ooga Chaka) in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
