Creating a flexed card anim

[wesware]

Here is a sample I whipped up using bend and twist deformers. If you need to do anything more complicated, I would use bones to convey more character but the basic deformers in Cinema work quite well for many scenarios. If you need the card to cup up like a letter C I would consider using the wrap deformer as well as "shear" for other effects. I think one thing you should keep constant is the volume of the card...

Here is a sample movie
http://www.wesart.com/kingsample.mov
Sample file
http://www.wesart.com/kingcard.sit

You might want to scan in or draw your own card images if this is for commercial purposes.

[kromekat]

wesware! - thanks very much indeed! - the movements I need are far less accentuated than that even, so your method will defintely work for my purposes!

Thanks again! :):thumbsup:

[wesware]

No problem!
Was fun to set up...

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