Inspired by the ‘36 Days of Type’ community project and others like it, the approach will be to use the letters of the English alphabet as a creative constraint combined with a key concept or goal to help explore interesting concepts in motion graphics. These projects are only one way of doing things that I have found that work in this instance. Questions and comments are welcome below in the hope that we can learn together. The Letter D. In this tutorial I wanted to explore fur and wind movement and be able to transform dry fur to wet. Along the way I realized that there is no way to animate the appearance of fur bending under the weight of the water. In fact there is no way to really direct hair particles at all. Shape Keys for hair is something I had not thought of until now. The feature was briefly created for the Gooseberry project but ultimately not implemented into Blender. I have come to realize just how vital this is for any detailed character animation. Here are the links discussed in the video. BlenderArtists: https://blenderartists.org/t/particle-hair-shape-keys/700863 Blender Wiki: https://archive.blender.org/wiki/index.php/Org:Institute/Open_projects/Gooseberry/SummaryLukas/ Right-Click Select: https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/XNfbbc/#60b991299c12210b179bfe23 Hair Shape Keys Addon: https://blendermarket.com/products/blender-addon--hairshapekey Check out my Gumroad page here: https://gumroad.com/icomdesign Thanks for watching.
Inspired by the ‘36 Days of Type’ community project and others like it, the approach will be to use the letters of the English alphabet as a creative constraint combined with a key concept or goal to help explore interesting concepts in motion graphics. These projects are only one way of doing things that I have found that work in this instance. Questions and comments are welcome below in the hope that we can learn together. The Letter D. In this tutorial I wanted to explore fur and wind movement and be able to transform dry fur to wet. Along the way I realized that there is no way to animate the appearance of fur bending under the weight of the water. In fact there is no way to really direct hair particles at all. Shape Keys for hair is something I had not thought of until now. The feature was briefly created for the Gooseberry project but ultimately not implemented into Blender. I have come to realize just how vital this is for any detailed character animation. Here are the links discussed in the video. BlenderArtists: https://blenderartists.org/t/particle-hair-shape-keys/700863 Blender Wiki: https://archive.blender.org/wiki/index.php/Org:Institute/Open_projects/Gooseberry/SummaryLukas/ Right-Click Select: https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/XNfbbc/#60b991299c12210b179bfe23 Hair Shape Keys Addon: https://blendermarket.com/products/blender-addon--hairshapekey Check out my Gumroad page here: https://gumroad.com/icomdesign Thanks for watching.