Ubisoft goes behind the scenes with the team making Just Dance 2025. This year, Just Dance celebrates its 15th anniversary.
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For Me Just Dance is really simple you
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have everything in the title you leave
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everything apart and you just
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dance it's a perfect game if you love
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dancing what describes best Just Dance
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is a mood booster welcome
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in hello everyone today we at the Jen
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studio in Paris to show you the making
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of Jance 2025 Edition we're going to
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meet some team members and they're going
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to show you the backstage of this game
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so let's
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go you have just to look around you
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because you live in a world of Pop
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cultures so inspiration can really be
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everywhere you need to see movies watch
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TV shows see what new artist are
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trending we start with uh an a brief
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like where does it take place some first
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visual Inspirations we start sketching
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in black and white and we make some 3D
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blockouts very simple shapes and after
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that it's my favorite part we sort the
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color Keys here is um concept art of
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espresso and so as the map is in 2D I've
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already prepared every Assets in the
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Photoshop so the video artist can work
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with paralex my job as a video artist is
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to basically gather all the assets
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that's created by uh the concept team
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whether it's 2D or 3D then we're going
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to incorporate the coach inside the 3D
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space and animate the cameras animate
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all the Assets in the
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background because we film on a green
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screen we have some constraint like
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about the colors we have to have colors
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on the characters that will stand out of
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the green screen we can use materials
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that will be too reflective because you
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can have green on the costume and then
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it will create holes when you do the cut
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of the characters out of the green
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screen the attitude the hairstyle the
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makeup the law of the character is now
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really important and that's what's
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really different between the old Just
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Dance or it was just a costume I would
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say
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Shakir C
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the costume needs to work perfectly with
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the dance so we have to choose flexible
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material so the costume will not break
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during the filming the the
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dday diversity and inclusion has always
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been at the very core of Just Dance
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since its creation 15 years ago so it's
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important that we represent all of our
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players in the game and that they feel
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really uh connected to it that's why we
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have map focus on for example sign
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language or
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ADHD for me as a former dancer uh dance
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is like uh an expression it's a it's a
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way of expression and a sign language of
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course is the same thing and I think
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it's uh two way of expression that can
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uh go together
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a Just Dance corero is different from a
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corero for live show or TV
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show for example also you can't uh turn
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the back to the screen of course
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otherwise it's too difficult to to see
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so we really need to think about first
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the player and what they going to
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experience is through the dance we work
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with the choreographer with a full team
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of level designer and we always find a
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way to score a move to uh make it fun
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and
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playable this year we want to connect
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with the roots of Just Dance uh it means
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with the family side of course we keep
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the challenging p with such difficult
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and aesome Coro but I think we we want
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to make a
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balance when I work on a map on the
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scoring if I want this map to be fun I
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want to feel the fun if I want a map to
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be hard to be a
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challenge I need to feel that challenge
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ky
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ky my will
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we have like new dance style which is
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Electro Dance style which is a wellknown
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dance created in
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France we also went further on the
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original music
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Creations H here H here it's my favorite
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talented dancer and choreographer bring
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their own touch their own spirit in the
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choreography and their own dance move
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and dance style of course their
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differences and reach the game
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really so this year again we put all our
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heart making the game we can't wait for
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you to get your hands on Just Dance 2025
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I want to thank you for your amazing
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cosplays for your feedbacks for your
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dances because I us the game have been
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going strong uh during 15 years now
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thanks for your passion and your energy
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so keep playing keep
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sweating and most of all having fun
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Gathering during conventions and play
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