egg hatch

[serious]

hi,

i am doing a project of an animated egg. it will jump and eventually it will crack and hatch. how do i animate the cracking and hatching of the egg? any help is greatly appreciated.

thanks,

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"I am SPARTACUS!!!"

[atyss]

Hi Spartacus,

So you want the egg shell to break and open, right?

I suggest that you model every peace of the shell. To do so, you can first model the whole egg, then cut pieces into it. This way you pieces will remain seamless. If they are not seamless, what you can do is make a copy of your original egg (not cutted), cut pieces in the original, scale just slightly the copy, and make it fade out when the cracks are to become visible.

I think that polygon objects is more suited to this. If you use nurbs, you'll have to make the piece's edges look rough with textures.

As for the animation, well I don't think it's big challenge to make piece drop on the floor. But of course you can use dynamics..... But personally I wouldn't go with solution. The complexity of the animation does not worth the amount of fine tuning.

Hope this helps!
Bernard Lebel

[fredc]

In reply to:
Hi Spartacus,

So you want the egg shell to break and open, right?

I suggest that you model every peace of the shell. To do so, you can first model the whole egg, then cut pieces into it. This way you pieces will remain seamless. If they are not seamless, what you can do is make a copy of your original egg (not cutted), cut pieces in the original, scale just slightly the copy, and make it fade out when the cracks are to become visible.

I think that polygon objects is more suited to this. If you use nurbs, you'll have to make the piece's edges look rough with textures.

As for the animation, well I don't think it's big challenge to make piece drop on the floor. But of course you can use dynamics..... But personally I wouldn't go with solution. The complexity of the animation does not worth the amount of fine tuning.

Hope this helps!
Bernard Lebel

Had a couple of ideas to add this post. I agree that Polygons look best for the egg.

1. Most polygon obects will have only horizonal and verticla edges. To get more random shaped edges of the shell fragments, rotate the egg in all three axis by some random amount and then use Effects/Subdivision.

2. Since the pieces of the shell are usually still connected to a membrane underneath, you might try, constraining the pieces to a surface model, that is the same shape as the original egg (Use: Constrain/Object to cluster). Then you could use a shape animation on the surface model to make it look like the chick is pushing the pieces outward. you will still need to animate some pieces seperately, but this might get the animation layed out well.

Let us know if you need help defining clusters for the constraint etc.

Urp

[serious]

hi,

thanks guys for your help. i just finished the animation and my boss liked it. i didnt really animated the small pieces. i used polygon for the egg and made it shake to emphasize that something's inside. then the upper half pops up to break it in half, showing the cracks in between. the animation's more of like a cartoony effect

thanks again,

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"I am SPARTACUS!!!"

[atyss]

Hey Spartacus,
Could you post a link to your animation? I (and Urp I'm sure :-)) would like to see what you've done!

Bernard

[fredc]

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Hey Spartacus,
Could you post a link to your animation? I (and Urp I'm sure :-)) would like to see what you've done!

Bernard

Yes, that would be nice (if you have the time). Glad to know the project went well.

Urp

[serious]

sure guys, but right now its still in the composting stage. can u teach me how to post works here? i havent posted any animations yet here in highend3d.

thanks,

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"I am SPARTACUS!!!"

[fredc]

In reply to:
sure guys, but right now its still in the composting stage. can u teach me how to post works here? i havent posted any animations yet here in highend3d.

thanks,(e
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"I am SPARTACUS!!!"

There are lots of sites that will let you build your own web page for free. I've only built web pages from my own domain, but I am pretty sure all the instructions you need are on the sites.

The only one I know off hand is geocities but there are lots of others. I would look for one that caters to 3D artists. They usually have less hassles on band width.

Good luck on the project,
Urp

[atyss]

First, you have to have a web page. If you don't have one, there is plenty of free site hosting providers available. An example is mine, Multimania (www.multimania.fr).

On every free site hosting provider site there are instructions on how to create a basic site, and there are tons of free apps to create html pages (go on www.download.com).

When you want to link an image or a movie in this forum, you have to type an html link to it.
The html code should look like this:

img src="http://www.mywebsite/thepicturepage/mypicture.jpg"

Paste this line in your post, and add before "" (I did not putted them in the above line because you would have seen the picture, not the code!)
So it sould look like this:

Of course you can link
Is it clear?

Bernard Lebel