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booleanspline
2 posts

29 Jan 2009
Hey guys the topics were so amazing on this board i had to join this forum. So hi. I got linked to this site from Tyson Ibele's site. And he has these 2d cartoons he made from splines. I amazed from that idea. I never thought of doing that. Its way better than the puppet tool for ae. Im trying to do the effect now but im running into a couple problems. All i can do is just bounce a body up and down or move the eyes. Every time i move vertices it changes the shape of his arm. How do i move his vertices without changing shape. Can you make bones for splines? Ive tried to look for other resources for this technique but failed. Tyson Ibele rocks. Is this his website? Thanks in advance for any help.
ivanisavich
4,196 posts

02 Feb 2009
Hey Boolean,

Tyson here You can skin splines the same way you'd skin normal geometry. With splines, if you skin them, the skin system will use the spline points as the control points instead of actual vertices. This allows for cool things like setting bezier tangents on the splines which will be maintained during bone deformation. It's how I did the bendy bones in the 2d-style animations on my site.