Paperworld for “Skoda – Curriculum Vitae”
Check out this spot we have worked on in collaboration with weareflink, Hamburg, Germany.
The Munich team consists of Martin Sächsinger, Nils Engler, Stefan Galleithner and me.
Check out the vimeo page to see full credits: http://vimeo.com/25073794
But how to create a Paperworld? One of the greatest challenge was to create animations where pages of paper should fold to different geometrical objects. So we developed some “PaperTools” in Softimage ICE, simplifying this task.
I want to show you some tools we made for this projekt:
The following video shows a tech demo of an ICE compound where you can bend/fold a paper on any arbitrary position:
The next video shows an extension of the paper bending compound. You can place a null and a compound for each folding. Connecting a single scalar value to each of the folding compounds let you animate the whole folding process with just one slider:
We developed a shape blender allowing us to blend between a set of geometry shapes via spline interpolation. It’s only necessary to create a group of geometry forming the key-deformation of the folding process. The compound is able to interpolate in-between shapes for a smooth animation. It uses a spline interpolation to get nearly “round” folding paths.
The video shows the interpolation between 13 geometry shapes:
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Curriculum Vitae per Skoda
5 Nov 11 at 9:09 am
J’aimeee
cv en ligne
3 Feb 12 at 11:25 am
How do you limit the nulls to not interfere when you fold over an already folded mesh. Or the mesh is all folded planified?
LL
8 Jun 12 at 1:22 am
Thank you for helping out, wonderful info. “I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.” by Goldie Hawn.
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11 Jun 12 at 4:50 pm
hi,
there are different solutions. One is to deform only the points within a specific distance of the nulls local space. this prevents interfering with the other nulls.
schnelli
12 Jun 12 at 9:54 am
Hi Christian
The ICE compound looks terrific.
Do you plan to share or possibly sell the compound at some time?
Do let me know!
Cheers!
Ajit Menon
5 Jul 12 at 4:35 pm
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Paperwork Animation & Rendering | Xgraf
6 Jul 12 at 10:34 pm
Hello! I know this is kinda off topic but I’d figured I’d ask. Would you be interested in trading links or maybe guest writing a blog article or vice-versa? My blog covers a lot of the same subjects as yours and I feel we could greatly benefit from each other. If you’re interested feel free to send me an email. I look forward to hearing from you! Wonderful blog by the way!
googlezerloerlofkd
26 Jul 12 at 8:09 pm
Great work! I know you’re also very proficient with Houdini (I’ll be watching CMI flocking tutorial soon), so am curious why you went with ICE instead? Thanks!
PMc
9 Aug 12 at 6:23 am
Thanks, PMc!
The reason is simple:
We worked in collaboration with other companies which where using Softimage. That’s why we developed the papertools in ICE.
Hope you enjoy the tutorial
Schnelli
9 Aug 12 at 11:41 am
Well that makes sense!
Thank you for the response, and already enjoying the tutorial!
PMc
9 Aug 12 at 3:01 pm
Very cool!
Can you share this cool compound?
kekexixi
31 Aug 12 at 6:14 am