typo animation with cloth

[thefreshestever]

inspired by robs amazing tests i´m trying to use cloth for some typo animation for work, to get some sort of bouncing yelly-letters falling down. it wasn´t easy to get it to behave like this, but i´m pretty much there. the letters will have to be remodeled though, they´re not complex enough for a smooth cloth-simulation, i just left them as they were imported by the ai-wizard. i´ve tried several approaches, with the letters in a invisible box etc... but i wanted the whole word to look like it´s one piece and i wanted to have the letters return to their original form and position at the end of the simulation, so i connected the single letters with invisible geometry. and that worked just fine, as you can see...

 

i will try to optimize it, i will post the project-file when it´s done, for those who are interested in the settings.

audioanim_low.mov

[robcat2075]

BOOM! I like that!

[brainmuffin]

I'd like to see it rendered with AO, like the FOX bumpers I keep seeing...

[itsjustme]

Great test, Sebastian!