A pack of animations and poses based/inspired from a Classical Ballet, Giselle (1841), by Morg and Sera after days and months of few sleeps, tears, blood, sanity and a sacrifice to Boaal (we are dead serious).

UPDATE: Fixed the elbow in the Ballet Nocturne Cavalier animation. Made the spell available in the Hotbar for the following races:

Dhampir
Dragonborn
Half-Orc
Merfolk
Aasimar

NOTE: I haven't had anyone tested them in these races though. So, if anyone could tell me if it works, please do tell me. Thank you.

PS: Thank you to Scar for helping me with the Progression list. I will try my best to add them.

NOW AVAILABLE IN NEXUS IN MORG’S ACCOUNT!

Poses and Animations are categorized under Morg & Sera Ballet in PhotoMode.

This is also a gift from me, Sera, to my 2K followers here in Patreon. Thank you for all the never ending support, the follows, the encouraging comments you all gave! It is truly an honour and pleasure.

Instructions: Please place mod at the very bottom of the load order in BG3MM for the meantime. Mod is still currently in due process of being patched with the Compatibility Patch for PhotoMode Poses by Catastrophical.

First Couple Dance Mod made available for everyone to enjoy:

If you want a quick sync of the animation for the Ballet Nocturne Couple/Pair Dance with less clicking and assigning and whatnot, (because I, Sera, am honestly too burnt out and overwhelmed atp and, you know, sometimes I just want to do VP sessions and/or edit videos in less than half an hour with minimal clicking and less windows in front of my face as much as possible, just like the old times, especially after an excruciating day at work, and just let my brain zone out. And I know a few people who also miss this, so this is for ya’ll), it is available as a Spell. So, this method is inspired from the Hugs and Kisses Mod by Cerberry and Emotes Mod by Claravel. Otherwise, you can also find it in Photomode.

Search for this Spell in your Hotbar:

I did not put any cinematography camera movements because I feel like everyone will prefer to do their own for their video edits. Also, the dance in the spell has some emotions in it as well. Unfortunately, it only shows up on the first loop of the animation. I have yet to figure out how to loop them. 

Another limitation of this is that it can displace your characters if the place is too narrow or small. 

If you want some VFX in the cutscene, Pretty Particles made by Scar appears in the cinematics. I am unsure about other VFX mods (please comment if they do work too. We will truly appreciate it).

Example:

The Ballet Nocturne Dance was aligned using BT1 and BT2 during the process of remapping the animation. However, it looks pretty good with the same body types. Slight misalignment with BT3 to BT2/BT1/BT4 and kinda obvious misalignment with BT4 to BT2/BT1. You might also notice some weird elbow twists in some parts of the animation especially with the Cavalier dance, but it seems to be not too obvious? I tried fixing it but as of the moment, I couldn’t find a solution to it. You might also see some weird finger placement in some of the animations. I tried to fix them frame by frame to the best of my ability. I tried. Fingers are difficult. They are the bane of my existence in remapping animations.

All Ballet Animations were legally purchased from RealIllusion and XStage with the appropriate Extended Licenses. 

Permission to Open/Edit Mod: No one is allowed to open the mod due to the legal implications of the license of all the animations that were purchased. If this has been breached, the person responsible for disobeying this will be blocked.  

Mods used in Sera’s VP:

badwitch69 Expeditioner Glam

Arideyya Stella

Silver Hair Pack

beaned_sprout Lathander necklace (privately commissioned)

baeator Helena Dress shoes 

OTIS Camera

Reshade 

Mods used in Morg’s VP:

Arachnomancer Pointed - Ballet and Dance Clothing

Arafel Sune

Arafel Du Boudoir - Night Dresses and Shirts for Multiple BTs

Baeator Helena Dress shoes 

OTIS Camera

*Mods used in our VP testers shots are only known by them*

Credits & Shoutouts:

A huge thank you to the following people who made this happen

• To Scar, for helping with Osiris Script and coding for the cutscene to work with a spell and how to create a spell for it!

• To Lizardphunk, for her very educational tutorials about making a cutscene and how to manage and use timelines!

• To Pommelstrike for helping and giving advice on how to do dancing animations and how to do animations in general and his tools to make Spell Icons much more easier to put and assign into the toolkit.

• Lumadaire and Catastrophical for their tutorial on how to add animations and/or poses to Toolkit.

• Kit and rDekarios for their rigs and tutorial.

• To our VP takers for taking their time and doing beautiful shots for the mod release

  • Morg

  • Cadyplays

  • Ash

  • Tav.Dreams.Creates

  • Lovebotlenore

  • Sky

  • Mossy the Padlock

  • Debbie

  • Darkka

• For those who volunteered and tested the mod and checked the animations and troubleshooting the mod.

• To my Gatita Family for the never ending support and love and encouragement that you always give! (Sera)

• To my close friends who never gave up on me and helped me to go on and keep on going. (Sera)

• To Morg for collabing with me in this mod and for teaching me the basic of ballet and getting me into it really. 🥹🌸💗 (Sera)

• To the Instagram Community for the continuous love and cheers you all always show and give!

• To Cat, for all the blender teaching and patience with me (Morg).

• To Michelle, for all the support and cheering you always give to me (Morg).

• Specially thanks to Sera for allowing me (Morg) to collaborate in this precious mod (you know it means a lot to me) and make the effort and the patience to put everything together. 🩰

• And a very special mention to Tav.Creates.Dreams for messaging me (Sera) one day and asked about the Ballet mod. 🌸 It got us to go back and be inspired again to make poses and animation again.

Enjoy everyone!