Question: organic shape modeling/morphing

[legadan]

:rolleyes:

[Rudity]

Hrmm this is pretty complicated.

here's a hack that might work and save you from using particles.

Model the text with all the letters connected so its one polly shape.
Duplicate it, move it where ever, then start modeling your organism.
but you gotta think ahead and plan for a linear a-b path that the vertices are going to travel because we are gonna use a blendshape.
So id model a goopy looking thing that is still readable to the text, dup that out, then start modeling on the duplicate and make it more goopy and organic, then dup it out again, planing where the vertices are going to travel. Keep doing this id say about 6 or so times
Then finally id have my organism.
then id grab all the shapes, before the final organism, then the organism, and put a blendshape on it.
Then just key the first one on, and key the rest off, then key the second one on, first one off and the rest off.
Keep doing this untill you got your text.


Now I did this off the top of my head just brainstorming.
But it would work, its just a pain in the ass.

If you did it with particles it would look cooler. But i dont know that much about them things
Maybe model your thing, turn it into soft bodies and make your text a goal weight. then play.. see what happens...


Cheers
Rudity

[legadan]

thanks for the advise rudity!

So far I've modelled the word and set a key frame in the last frame and began pushing and pulling points to make an organic shape in the first frame. If this doesn't work that well, I will definitely try what you have suggested. Again, thank you!:)

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