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Model and rig a flower bloom

Model and rig a flower bloom - Maya Tutorial

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Model and rig a flower bloom

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- [George] Hi, I'm George Maestri and today we're going to get organic, we're going to create a flower and then we're going to make it bloom. So, we're going to get started with just a few simple objects. Now, I have this object here, which is the center of our flower, and as you can see it's going to be a daisy, and then we have one petal of the flower, and what we're going to do is animate that petal and then just duplicate that so the animation goes for all the petals. And then we have a blend shape for that petal. So what we're going to do is we're going to use the Blend Shape function of Maya and then use Duplicate Special to make the entire flower. So let's start off with Blend Shape. So what I did was I took this petal and just reshaped it and I basically duplicated it and reshaped it into this shape and that's basically the shape that you would see when the flower is closed. And we can use Blend Shape to actually animate this from this shape to this shape. Now, if you're not…

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