Growing Grapes Veins and Bottles - Rigging and Lighting from Florian Witzel on Vimeo.
Last week a friend showed me this video while discussing about possible ideas for a rig I will be working on next month (So check back here when productions start, got it). The rig is going to be made in Maya, so I had to try to reverse engineer the process to be able to apply it on what I wanted. After some of just messing around in maya trying out how lattices and other deformers worked, I came up with this:
Messing with Lattices, Wraps, and Attributes from David Vega on Vimeo.
Essentially you have the first object transfer over the vertex position to the second object, which is a duplicate of the first. This allows you to still be able to move the second object around while the first object acts like a bounding box. Then you apply a wrap deformer from the second object to the object you actually want to effect, so you now you can have it disappear or collapse into a single point and then have it form back up by just moving the second object.
Well see how this idea goes, until then enjoy !
