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Snake Defensive Display animation
How one would approach this specific snake motion in Blender as shown in reference:
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The position of the snake visibly remains almost static while the body parts ...
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Can modifiers such as "Subdivision" and "Array" be "animated"?
Suppose I wanted to animate an object growing out of the ground, or turning from a cube to a much smoother shape, could I animate this using modifiers and key frames?
I know I can use shape keys to ...
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Is there a "Volume Select" equivalent in Blender?
3D Studio has a modifier called "Volume Select" that allows using an element's geometry as a sort of selection force field that influences elements in its path. It can be used to transform many at ...
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Array a collection of objects along a curve
So I wanted to array this 3 bottles on a Spiral Curve
I Tried using the most normal way possible, array and curve modifier , the bottles are stretched and the most importantly, only 1 bottle can be ...
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How can I easily animate cutaway views on multiple objects?
I'm trying to create animated cutaway views on multiple objects in my scene. For example, in my car model, the seats and other interior objects are separate objects.
This question talks about using ...
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Compressional wave in a cube
I want to see the propagation of a compressional wave in a cube. I meshed a cube along Y and just added wave in this same direction as follows:
But only the first and the last Y normal surfaces move ...
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How to create a "fluid/distortion" effect on a solid object (example inside)
I've been struggling to understand how I should approach the following effect in Blender:
Watch the YouTube Video The Node (at 1:37)
I've tried to solve this one through the displacement modifier (...
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How do I stick an object to another objects vertex?
I just created a plane and added a wave modifier to it, to simply make it look like something fluid. Now, I have an Object that I want to place on the surface of this fluid plane. But how do I do that?...
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Dotted line on curve?
I'm making a video, and I have two identical objects that start in the same place and then separate. I want to have a dotted line connecting them which appears only when the two objects start ...
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Dynamic proportional edit connected to an object?
Is there a method or modifier that would allow me to dynamically create an effect on a mesh similar to the proportional edit, that would accept a magnitude, position and directional vector by using ...
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How to animate an object so it follows the slope (normal) of another object?
I'd like to animate an object moving over a surface and have the object positioned so it follows the slope (normal) of the surface.
Using a shrinkwrap constraint, the object will follow the change in ...
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Deform a hole on a torus
I'm new to Blender.
Is there some way to animate a deformation of a hole on a torus by expanding it?
Like in this video. (until 2.5 second, I don't need to completely shrink it)
I tried to use shape ...
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How to duplicate an object in 2.8 via the Python API
I know how to successfully duplicate an object by using
bpy.ops.object.add_named(name = 'TemplateObjectName')
If the template object named 'TemplateObjectName' ...
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How to edit a rotated mesh in pose mode
I want to edit a mesh of a rotated object in pose mode.
But when I select a rotated object with edit mode, it is restored to its original condition.
I want to make an animation process of folding, so ...
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How to animate the Displacement of the Displace modifier
I'm trying to animate a flag but I want to avoid using Cloth or any Physics simulation. I like the deformation I get by using a Displace modifier controlled by a procedural cloud texture. If I could ...
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