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Open up sphere and animate out
Hi everyone,
I’m looking for some pointers on how to animate a sphere open.
I have two hemispheres that have bevelled edges, giving the impression of a sphere split in half. I have one outer sphere around them that I would like to animate to reveal the split underneath (making it look like the outer sphere is actually breaking in half).
I need the outer sphere to sort of open up and rotate out, but I have absolutely no idea how to go about this. My Cinema knowledge is fairly limited, so I’d really appreciate some help.
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5 Replies
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I’m not sure if this is exactly what you’re going for, but I did a tutorial a while back that might give you some ideas: https://www.3danvil.com/tutorials/folding%20sphere/Folding%20Sphere.html
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Thanks for your comment, I tried splitting the circle and rebuilding it using an array, but it is not giving me the result I want.
I made a little graphic to demonstrate what I am after:
I tried animating the amount of sides in the array to open up the circle, but this does not open up one big hole but holes between all the sides =(
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Is this what you are trying to accomplish?
I used an arc in a lathe nurb, put the lathe nurb in a symmetry object and animated the angle of the lathe nurb.
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Thank you so much, that is exactly what I was looking for!!
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