Animate Growing Object

[toniohec]

Hi there,

I'm new here, I'm a french graphic motion designer, working essentially on After Effects but I learnt Maya too.

I'd like to animate a growing object but I don't know where starting.

here some examples of what I'd like : https://vimeo.com/35145361

I found some interesting stuff here but I can't use Max, is there something similar with Maya ? :

http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/louis/reveal\_techniques\_and\_autodesk\_university\_in\_las\_vegas

I'd like, if possible, to animate face by face in visibility and/or in transform.

I tried animating the transparency map, it worked more or less but I'm not satisfied... I'd like to animate my model directly.

Thanks for reading,

Antoine

[joojaa]

, is there something similar with Maya ?

This isnt actually very hard at all justy a bit of work to corergraph each separate action. There isnt any one really complex effect in the whole shot that I wouldnt have doen at a time or another. The growing fo the cable being the most complex thisng to set up.

  I'd like, if possible, to animate face by face in visibility and/or in transform.

Its possible pretty standard stuff in fact, easiest is to use particle dynamics split up each face and drive it directly with paricle expressions (theres really no need for 2 surfaces to be connected in one msh for it to look like one mesh as far as the computer is concerned each facse is still totaly speparate even if you combine or not)

The real deal is to start small test with really simplified schenarios. Keying 100000 separate object is no harder than keying one object. You can even aminate per face attributes of maya objects. WHat you do is you key all of them at once then sift their timing.

[toniohec]

thanks for your answer jooja, but I'm wondering... if I use particule for each face, shan't I lose the smooth effect ? I mean it's a low poly model with soften edge, but if I separate the faces, it won't work, will it ?

And when u say:

You can even aminate per face attributes of maya objects

how does it work ?

I may be dumb, but I can't find where is it.