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Any ideas on animating this cartoon grass?
Hello.
So I’ve been working on my website which will feature a fully animated scene, here is an example: Animated Clouds – How my logo will animate
Anyways, I like how my grass planet looks, and I have a super high res version, so detail won’t be a huge issue. Just wondering if any of you had any suggestions on how I could make the grass slowly sway in the wind.. the only thing I’ve thought of so far is manually using the puppet tool on each individual blade of grass, but I’m not too sure it will come out that great.
Any ideas? It just has to be subtle, just a little something so it’s not dead static.
Thanks!
P.S. How do you guys like the clouds so far? They aren’t done yet, but they are on the right path, I think. -
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nice work man.. I like that style a lot. You might try a bit of turbulent displacement on the grass planet. Not sure that’s what you’re going for but there are a lot of settings that could be tweaked to make it a subtle effect.
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Thanks 🙂
Yeah I’ve been messing with turbulent displace.. I may be able to rig it up how I want with a little tweaking. I was just afraid it’d look too warpy and weird, but I’m playing with masking the edges, just warping those grass blades, then maybe mask out the little chunks on the inside to warp, instead of just slapping a big warp effect on the whole planet.
It looks OKAY, but I’m still going to stay open to other suggestions. I guess if all else fails I will play with this a lot more and try to achieve what I want.
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You could make one blade of grass animate in a precomposition, using either a warp, puppet tool, or simply setting the anchor point to the base of the blade, and use a wiggle expression on the rotation.
Once you have the animation down for one blade, you can just duplicate the precomposition many times in a new comp, and slightly offset the layers so they aren’t all moving at exactly the same time.
Jon Geddes
Motion Graphics Designer
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Jees, you know, I don’t even know why I didn’t think of that, haha.
I think this might be the way to go, especially since all the animations on there will be more traditionally animated, I think any warp effects could make it look out of place.
I will probably use your idea, but animate individual clumps of grass by hand, and use those throughout the “planet.” I will try to duplicate them as least as possible, though.
Good call on that one, thank you for showing me the obvious 😛
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