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  making a bendy figure from a jpeg

  Posted by Andrew ‘the swarbs’ swarbrick on June 28, 2005 at 3:34 pm

  I’m currently trying to create a bendy plastic man from a jpeg. I have cut the jpeg of the toy man up into limbs and torso. The effect I am after however is tobend and mold the limbs rather like those toy figures which have wire in them and you can bend them into a poseable shapes. Any help withhow to do this with a 2d photo would be appreciated. I have used CC Smear and it looks stretched not posed

  Andrew

  Mike Clasby replied 21 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Mike Clasby

  June 28, 2005 at 11:40 pm

  Have you seen Dan Ebbert’s “Animating a Walk Cycle”?

  https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?page=/articles/ebberts_dan/layer_looping/index.html

  Click on Dan’s head above and scroll down for his other tuts, all good.

  You could also youse CC Bend It or CC Bender to get smooth bends. Or you could use bend it on the pieces along with Dan’s tut.

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