Great pictures Mark! The pineapple leaves could need something though... maybe they're a bit too light?
Jan, I think the leaves of a pineapple are very hard and don't move unless forced, so maybe animation is not needed. Regards, Jouni 2009/4/8 Jan Schmitz <[email protected]>: > Hey Mark, > > that looks really nice. Great textures :) > I can't wait to see that fruits animated! > > How are you going to animate the long leaves of the > pineapple? I think that will be really hard, because > every movement of the fruit will affect the leaves, too. > > Grüße, > Jan > > >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark >> Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 2:45 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: some fruit >> >> >> >> Hey all, >> >> >> >> It's been a while but I haven't forgotten Real! Working with it a lot >> except for the last three months but I'm off again! >> >> >> >> I'm currently working on a little character animation with a pineapple and >> a banana. Tomorrow I'll start animating them. >> >> I did some tests with the banana and it seems lattice mapping it to a >> nurbs curve and then animating that curve works best. Any tips? >> >> >> >> The textures I made myself from photographs, it required some precise UV >> editing to get the banana right! Man this was way more work than I >> anticipated. The pineapple too, I photographed a real one from 8 directions, >> put that together in a single texture and face-mapped that to an SDS shere >> with displacement mapping. >> >> >> >> This is going to be a little 'temptation' short animation, we are >> hopefully going to seduce a company into a short commercial ;) >> >> >> >> Cheers to V7! >> >> >> >> >> >> - Mark H
