Greetings Fellow Cinephiles,
I found the GenArts Showreel clip on Maxon’s site to be impressive (http://www.maxonexchange.de/video/stories/broadcast/genarts/GenArts.mov) and would love to master the demonstrated techniques. In this animation, a swath of paper rips and curls into a roll, revealing text behind it.
At first I thought the best approach would be to use the cloth tag in conjunction with the bend deformer. But I don’t see a way to make each 360 degree iteration of the bend deformer spiral increasingly inwards. Also, after considerable tweaking, I couldn’t succeed in making the ripping of fabric resemble ripping paper.
I also tried bezier nurbs, loft nurbs, sweep nurbs with thin wide rectangles along a spiral spline, etc. Each method I tried worked to a degree, but seemed to hit a dead end in one way or another.
Have any of you tried and succeeded with a technique to model ripping and curling of paper? GenArts has demonstrated that this CAN be impressively created. Hopefully a discussion of this will be interesting to others as well.
Thanks for your input!
- Larry