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blob animation
I have a character to animate that is basically a blob with two short tails sticking out of either side. I want to be able to bounce him around the screen al la bouncing ball exercise (this is how he walks), as well as deform him in other ways as he interacts with his surroundings (IE getting poked by another object)
I’m wondering what you all think is the best workflow for something like this. I’ve considered the grid deformer, but would like more control. Would it be possible to use a morphing tool? Is there something obvious I’m missing that will work?
Thanks for any thoughts!
K
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4 Replies
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CC Bend or CC Bender for the tails — check out liquify — it may help move him around in a blobby sort of way
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Thanks! I’ll give those a shot. For parts of it I have a bunch of keyframe drawings I want to “tween.” I seem to remember a feature that does this in some tutorial or other. If the drawings are fairly similar, is this a viable option?
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[Nender] “keyframe drawings I want to “tween.””
Ack! Flash terminology! I’ll try to answer as succinctly as possible, then go hide my head in the sand.
I think you’re referring to animating a mask (‘keyframe drawings?’) which would be done by animating the mask shape property. If you already have a few different masks that you want to animate between you can give them each a single keyframe, then paste these keyframes into a mask following the order and rate at which you want the mask to progress.
For example: copy the mask shape keyframe from Mask 10, paste it into Mask 1 at 3 seconds and the mask should animate from the shape of Mask 1 at 00;00;00 to the shape of Mask 10 at 00;03;00.
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One thing I like to use is the roughen edges with simple forms. Test it, create some simple small black circles at the same position, wiggle them, precompose and play with the roughen edges tool. It can make really nice blobs, and you can move some of them automatically and others manually.
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