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  • Tying Balloons into Letters / Shapes?

    Posted by Shawn Lance on January 12, 2007 at 3:33 pm

    We have all seen those balloon magicians deftly tying slim colorful balloons into wondrous shapes and I have a project coming up that, if I could find a way to pull it off, this effect would be perfect for. I didn

    Mylenium replied 19 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Mylenium

    January 12, 2007 at 6:17 pm

    From my view there isn’t really much magic to it. You mostly only need to take care to get some decent shading which isn’t that difficult to build (as per the styles on my homepage or in my Aqua tutorial here at the COW). The only real problem I see is to find a suitable font that either is rounded enough or that at least survives extreme treatments with Simple Chocker and erodilation (to round off all it’s sharp corners). To get that wobbly, soft feeling, one probably would simply use Turbulent Displace with very subtle values.

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