Animating a string blowing in the wind?

[Anim8@creativecow.net]

would generating a stroke on a bezier mask curve and animating it manually do the trick?

I’ve a similar problem – stylized strands of hair. If any one has any ideas about that as well! (Exploring 3D Stroke in the same manner as Generate Stroke, though I wish there was a Particular preset for hair!)

[Nate Vander plas]

There’s bezier warp. It won’t give you very many curves in the string, though. Also CC Bend it- but same problem. What’s wrong with wavewarp?

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

if you want something with mnore randomness then wave warp, then use a displacement map generated via a fractal noise map. If you aren;t familiar with displacement maps, then check out these tutorials:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/displacement1/index.html

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/displacement2/index.html

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/displacement3/index.html

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