[Phil Biggs]

As with most modeling, nine times out of ten it’s better to start of with primitives. Hope this helps:
https://www.philipbiggs.com/quick_ribbon_tutorial.jpg
Cheers,
Phil
Senior Broadcast Editor
Disney Cruise Line

[Phil Biggs]

There are several ways to achieve this, the most obvious being sweep nurbs along a spline. In this example though, I used a long, thin, subdivided plane, moved the points and edges to get the shape of the banner, then dropped it into a hypernurbs object. The thickness was achieved using the Explosion FX deformer using only the cluster thickness parameter.
Cheers,
Phil

[Phil Biggs]

Think I fixed it – the liquid and the inner glass polys were in the exact same space. I scaled down the liquid a touch and it works fine.
Cheers,
Phil

[Phil Biggs]

Thank you,
the points just wouldn’t weld or optimize so I ended up putting the spline into an extrude nurbs object with a depth of 0m. I then made it editable, optimized the points, selected all the edges and used the edge to spline command. Kind of a long way around but it finally got rid of all those extra points.
Cheers,
Phil

[Phil Biggs]

Thank you, I knew it would be something ridiculously simple! Just when you think you’re starting to get a hang of something, it’s the easy things that remind you that there’s still a long way to go…

[Phil Biggs]

Thank you,
the Explosion FX worked (following a current state to object command). I have been trying to build a British soccer team logo in 3D. The 2D logo has a scroll drawn to look 3D.

It has been a challenge to make the fake 3D into actual 3D to match the 2D original (if that makes any sense). I had been trying with splines and sweep nurbs but couldn’t match the original shape accurately enough. I ended up using polys in a hypernurbs object and then adding the thickness. I would still like to build this with splines so I can animate the scroll growth with the sweepnurbs start and end parameters. Is there any way I can create a spline from the existing points of my polygon object (say the top row of points)?
Cheers,
Phil

[Phil Biggs]

Many thanks for your swift response, we’ll give that a try.
Cheers,
Phil

[Phil Biggs]

Point taken Steve!
I guess I’ve always been guilty of undercharging for my work – you know – ‘friends rates’ for people who I just met etc. I really need to toughen up in that respect. But, if it came down to picking melons to pay for the youth hostel, or doing some design work for the same money… 😉
Anyway – have Powerbook, will travel.
Cheers guys,
Phil

[Phil Biggs]

Thanks for your help guys,
As John suggested, the captured footage is actually upper field first. It works fine back in Edition when separated as upper first, then rendered out lower first (the last combination I tried)!
Cheers,
Phil

Oh – John, I’m heading out to Australia from the UK next week to do a bit of travelling. Can you recommend anywhere I could look for some low paid casual graphic design / operating work?
Cheers

[Phil Biggs]

Many thanks for your reply,
I’ve tried the disc in 3 players and it does the same thing each time. Your advice makes sense although there doesn’t appear to be a number selector in the timeline properties window – is that a feature in version 1.5? I only have 1.0.1 – there is only name and description options. If I name the timelines as a number and sort them in the correct order in the timelines tab, will that have the same effect?
Cheers,
Phil