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Maroonie
02-16-2003, 04:05 PM
Hi there, :beer:

I'm new here, and this looks like a friendly and helpful little community so I thought I'd give it a whirl!

I'm a young graphic artist from Maidenhead and I am just starting to get into high end 3d, I've already done a few things with Cinema 4D, and as I'm mac based (Dodges the rotten fruit) that was the most accesible to me. Now I've managed to get my grubby little hands on Maya 4.5 and Lightwave 7.5 and have been enjoying learning both and getting to grips with the workflows of each programme.

Me and my friend are making our own DVD about the fun we get up to when we're smashed and I wanted to try and do some awesome looking logo animations for it.

I want the effect of the Logo which is basically just indivdual unjoined letters Blowing up - However I don't want the actually geometry of the letters to shatter, I just want each letter as a whole to fly away. I could key frame this, but i thought It would be cooler and easier to leave this up to dynamics.

I was thinking something along the lines of grouping each letter to a particle and make it inherit the rotation/movement of the particle when i added turbulence etc to it. I don't really know how to go about this as I am still learning the packages, so any help would be much appreciated.

I'm sorry if this is a fairly basic question, but I'm a fairly basic person :drool:

Thanks for your time!

Maroonie the Loonie AKA Lord of the Rums
Maroonie
02-16-2003, 04:32 PM
I just saw the meaningful thread names notice.
I realise that my thread name is about as helpful as a dildo in a nunnery.

Sorry about this, and I'll name my threads more wisely in the future.

Regards

Maroonie
Mahlon
02-16-2003, 07:03 PM
I can't really answer your question for Maya or Light. I use max and it could be done with reactor there. Best thing to do would be put this question in the Maya forum, or Lightwave if you're using that to do it with. Traffic down here is a bit slow sometimes.

Mahlon Bouldin:beer:
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