Re: unwrapping chocolate

Date : Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:06:54 +0100 (BST)
To : XSI(at)Softimage.COM
From : "Andy Nicholas" <andy(at)andynicholas.com>
Subject : Re: unwrapping chocolate
I'd maybe try animating it in reverse, i.e. have it unwrapping and reverse
the footage later. Could you then try doing a zero G cloth sim to do the
unwrapping? Might get a more natural look to it?

A


> oldy but goldy.....
>
> i have to animate a wrapper spiraling onto a bar of chocolate,
> like an orange peeling, but in reverse
>
> sounds fairly simple, couple of spirals with a twist deformer, or animated
> creation properties, then loft between them...
>
> but i get nasty pinching, and it looks too 'mechanical' and regular
> also tried skeleton from curve (spiral) but the bones center's are all
> over
> the place, so the animation looks awfull)
>
> thought someone here may have done this on a past commercial and could
> share
> their insights?
>
> first workable reply gets a bar of said chocolate!
>
> many thanks
>
> a
>
> Adrian Wyer
> fluid-pictures.com
>
>
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