2 tuff questions about this video: Can you use Vegas Pro to make a video like this?

[LisaRN]

In the video linked below, you will see a an animated figure that is the subject of this post. It's entire body is blue, it has white teeth, two arms, two legs and white eyes. I'm new to video editing, and for several weeks I've been wondering about a wonderful video like this one, a video that has this type of animated character (I'll call the character I'm referring to "Blue Guy"). This is what I've been wondering:

1) Could you create Blue Guy with Vegas Pro? Or would you need to use another editing program like Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, or Avid Media Composer in order to create Blue Guy?

2) What is the technique called that the video editor used to create Blue Guy? In other words, what 2, 3, or 4 keywords would you type into Google in order to find videos, tutorials and information that would teach a newbie how to make Blue Guy?

I've watched a lot of Vegas tutorials at Youtube, there are hundreds of them. Odd, none of them show you how to make something like Blue Guy, not one! I wonder why that is? A Vegas tutorial that shows you how to make a Blue Guy would get a ton of hits!! A big thanks in advance on shedding light on how someone could go about of making an animated figure like Blue Guy.

http://fiverr.com/digitaldirector/edit-your-4-minute-or-less-video

[LisaRN]

Sorry for the mix-up! It appears Blue Guy is gone. I may have confused some people out there. The reason for the confusion is that the video editor switched videos and replaced the video that Blue Guy was in with a completely different video. Blue Guy is gone but the new video has an animated character in it too. Instead of Blue Guy there's an animated robot in the new video. The robot is cute as a button. It has a number on it. That number is 06. You'll see that number at the bottom of the robot. There's only one robot in the new video, so the number is kinda irrelevant. In the new video you'll see that the animated robot appears at the 8s mark and runs to the 25s mark. Sorry for the confusion, but that's the Internet for you, it can be pretty fluid at times :) :) The two questions I posed in the thread starter, questions about Blue Guy, now pertain to to the cute robot.

Animated robot: http://fiverr.com/digitaldirector/edit-your-4-minute-or-less-video

[bigotti5]

For creating and animating such scenes you have to use 3D animation software like Blender, Muvizu (free) or Cinema 4D, 3D Max, Maya ($)...

[Sparktank]

Blender is free and highly developed and highly praised.
http://www.blender.org/

Sony Vegas wouldn't be used to create anything like the blue guy. It's just for editing in post-production.
Use something like Blender or other software that bigotti5 mentioned for the production and then edit afterward with Sony Vegas.

Browse around the blender site to see what people are doing with the program. There's a lot of good projects there.
The best ones are the featured short films they've created.

http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/movies/
Tears of Steel, Sintel, and Big Buck Bunny are the most featured projects from Blender.

Definitely look around for some of the behind the scenes on the projects.
Mind you, the really fancy looking ones take more time.
There should also be a section to look at users projects. A lot of fans and users of Blender submitted their work and you can see the varying levels of quality and effort.
I've seen some projects that weren't very polished or showed very dynamic movement in the character's articulation.
It's quite common to see the joints and limbs move so stiffly.
But, they still conveyed the overall idea and concept of the project.

The blue guy video was very well polished with fluid and more articulate movement.