Rob, thanks for the suggestion. I put it up on vimeo: https://vimeo.com/59303003
I'm glad that this found you Olivier. And yes, LK Skinner is basically a sophisticated cage/hull deformer. It has the ability to use multiple objects at once, to weight the skinning by weight maps and ice attributes, to sample a greater area of the skinned to mesh, and to be combined with multiple instances of itself, to skin different parts of the object to different other objects. Thanks for the kind words. If from what you see in the video you have any further suggestions, let me know. On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 5:14 PM, olivier jeannel <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey Leonard ! > I think it was me asking for that :) > Plain fantastic tool ! > So LKskinner is a sort of super cage deform / hull deformer tool ? That > looks super powerfull :) > > "We don't live in a 8 bit world" :)))))) > > Thank's a lot for all this ! > > > Le 09/02/2013 13:46, Leonard Koch a écrit : > > Hey guys > > a week or so ago somebody here on the list posted this spot showing the > new channel branding for channel 4Seven and asked how to accomplish an > effect like that in Softimage. > There were a couple of suggestions, but nobody really came up with a > solution. > When I saw the shot I thought, that that shouldn't be too hard to do with > LK Lightning. > > Here is a tutorial showing how to create the effect: > http://youtu.be/A6z334WzNK0 > It also gives a good look at a lot of the new features from LK Lightning > 2.0 which will be available soon. > > Breakdown: (click on the time indexes to jump to the respective segment) > 00:00 <http://youtu.be/A6z334WzNK0?t=0m00s> - Introduction > 01:25 <http://youtu.be/A6z334WzNK0?t=1m25s> - Setting up the grid > generator. > 05:18 <http://youtu.be/A6z334WzNK0?t=5m18s> - Creating the strands with > LK Lightning. > 06:28 <http://youtu.be/A6z334WzNK0?t=6m28s> - Setting up the emitter > options. > 09:03 <http://youtu.be/A6z334WzNK0?t=9m03s> - Making the strands break > apart using the Proximity controller. > 11:50 <http://youtu.be/A6z334WzNK0?t=11m50s> - Using a null to control > where the strands break apart > 14:00 <http://youtu.be/A6z334WzNK0?t=14m00s> - Animating the null. > 17:13 <http://youtu.be/A6z334WzNK0?t=17m13s> - Meshing the strands using > the LKL Mesher > 20:38 <http://youtu.be/A6z334WzNK0?t=20m38s> - Using booleans to cut the > curvature of the 7 into a copy of the mesh. > 25:03 <http://youtu.be/A6z334WzNK0?t=25m03s> - A prayer to the gracious > gods of the boolean. > 25:23 <http://youtu.be/A6z334WzNK0?t=25m23s> - Using LK Skinner to skin > the frozen and booleaned mesh to the dynamic mesh generated from the > strands. > 27:52 <http://youtu.be/A6z334WzNK0?t=27m52s> - Caching the final product. > 29:56 <http://youtu.be/A6z334WzNK0?t=29m56s> - Taking a look at the final > result and some thoughts on LK Lightning 2.0 > > I couldn't find the original thread anymore, so if anyone knows who > originally asked for this please let them know. > I can't wait for you guys to get your hands on 2.0, it's a lot of fun. > > >
