Paul Esteves

014 - Animated Flower Assets (Patreon)

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2023-04-10 13:00:06

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We'll tackle rigging, animating and simulating pre-existing flower assets. I find this is more common than making procedural flowers when doing client work, so, I thought I'd show my workflow for this.

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014 - Animating Flower Assets

-- In This Video -- In this video 00:00 Intro 01:12 Preparing the flower asset 03:14 Add curves onto petals 11:45 Create a petalmask attribute 14:52 create weighting on petals 17:20 Create basic animation 22:15 Add petalmask into animation 24:25 Add curveu into animation 29:09 Fix gap between petals 32:02 Move petals inwards 36:47 Add scale to petals 38:50 Pin points for Vellum 40:45 Setup Vellum 42:39 Fix Vellum problems 43:15 Animate Sepals 50:03 Final file cache 50:20 Retime the animation 51:22 Final thoughts