Peeling an apple (or an orange) in 1 piece

[dermatzke]

Hmmm... can anybody help me in this case? How can I animate a peeled apple? Starting at one point on the top of it and peeling it down.

Heres an image to explain what i am trying:

http://de.geocities.com/applemayade/apple.html

Many many thanks for your help:

Andreas

[gmask]

What I suggest is that you create the peeled skin in the shape of the apple using lofted surfaces. So you take the profiles of the apple and and cop it up to match were you want it peeled. The loft those shorter segments of the profile. The apply an series of joints controlled by a splineIK. You then may have to use masking as you peel it so that areas that haven't been peeled yet don't crack prematurely.

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[jtk77]

you could give belndshapes a try ..but since Mayas Blendshpaes are not SPLINE based..which is something i ask for ...but its not on Alias's to do list as yet...even though it'd be easy I think.
It may not work nicly unless you make a few per peel.

"simply think of something that people need but which does not yet exist"
Professor John Frink
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[mads-tuxen]

In reply to:
Hmmm... can anybody help me in this ....
Andreas

You could also skin your way out of it: make a spiral-spline or wat ever shape you like to use. If you make a procedural one i am sure u can animate the opening of the peel. then make some bones in the right shape (spiral) and use the spline as an ik spline with the animation. finaly skin your mesh. you can make your mesh by using the draw-split tool that can be downloaded here somewhere! I know i missed a few details but I hope u get the idea!

Mads
tuxen@radarfilm.com

[ezra]

for creating the apple skin you could make your apple object live and draw the spiral skin curves on it.

[dermatzke]

Ok, so far. I