Rolling out the red carpet

Hey there, what’s up?
Here’s an interesting technique I recently used at a job to animate a carpet that rolls out.
I forgot to mention one main advantage for using a “proxy spline” in this screencast: If I directly had used the original spline for the Sweep-Nurbs, the Sweep-Nurbs would have been bent and sheared as well and I didn’t want that.

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  1. albert

    lieber robert leger.
    danke für dieses tutorial, sehr hilfreich wie alle quicktips.
    gibt es eine möglichkeit diese technik auch auf folgendes beispiel anzuwenden?
    http://vimeo.com/15129320

    besonders interessant ist das ‘anlegen’ eines bandes (oder eines anderen objekts) an eine bestimmte endform.

    danke für die antwort (falls zeit ist).
    lg, a.

  2. Joseph

    Hi Robert,

    Is this technic suitable for animating a giftbox ribbon? How would you do it?

  3. Kuban

    Hey Robert
    Thanks for this, have been trying to figure it out for a while, and your tip fixed it all.
    Out of interest, why did you need to rotate the bend deformer and the shear at the initial spline stage?`

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