Best way to animating a "origami" style animation

[kevbogsp]

Hi,

For the sake of the argument i have to animate several "origami-style" animations, say how to fold a paper airplane and such...
I can model the "endresult" and reverse engineer the several steps back to the "flat" piece of paper. But what would be the most efficient or logical way to go. Shape animation would be logical... Any tips, hints, tutorials in this matter??

Thanks for any reply,

rob

[atyss]

I wouldn't go with shape animation, in the case you want the paper to "fold" between the different states. Shape animation will linearly interpolate between the shapes, making it unusable.

Intead I would create all the folds on a grid, by splitting edges. Then I would envelope it to a set of bones and animate the bones.

Hope this helps
Salutations - Cheers
Bernard Lebel