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Old 24-09-2011, 10:23 AM   #1
pixelpedro
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Default Animating some tentacles

Hey Guys, I'm sorta new to these forums and to LW, so please if this is an incredibly idiotic question forgive me in advance.

A client provided me with a model of an Ecoli virus that a previous artist had done an animated in Max, for who know what reason, he's not working with this guy any longer, and needed me to animated, I though since rigged it'd be simple, but I guess coming from max everything gets lost, no a biggie, a recreated the tentacles/bones with it, but I've tried several things, but I though I could just make a curvy spline, and have the bones deform to it, so that when the object moves past the camera, the tentacles (the rear ones) move in a wavy fashion.

It is definitely my inexperience (so please forgive me for this) but can someone guide me in the right direction of either a tutorial on how to achieve this, or share the best way of doing this.

I'm on a Mac using LW 9.6 (and yes is a legit ver. I have my USB dongle, lol)

Thanks in advance.



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