animating growing plants???? help

Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2

This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with complex objects.

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# 1 24-08-2004 , 03:12 PM

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I am attempting to animate a plant growing round an object and have come unhinged whilst trying it. The flower heads and leaves are easy, I'm using blend shapes, but the stem, which has smaller branches growing off it is more problematic. I tried extruding a face of a polygon and bend deformers, which kinda worked but looked messy.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated

thanks
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# 2 24-08-2004 , 04:03 PM

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use paint fx.

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# 3 02-09-2004 , 11:14 PM

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honestly if ur going to put the plant in a game judging on the size ull b surprized how much better it looks in its enviornment...

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# 4 03-09-2004 , 08:08 AM

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have been trying paint fx

guys,

have tried paint fx but as the shot is a close up pan across the pants it doesn't look good. think blend shapes may be the only way forward but am stumbed as to how to do it

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