Hi All!
I’m trying to animate a ball that starts growing into a long sausage-shaped thing. I’ve learned to make cylinders grow using array and curve modifiers but I can’t figure out how to do with round edges.
Please see file for my attempts and a model of what I’d like the sphere to look like when animation is complete.
Thanks!
/Erik
grow animation.blend (867 KB)
In the array modifier you can name an end cap object to start and end the array with - you could use a sphere half there on each end, and start it close together so it starts like a sphere and then extends the cylinder array.
Use cap objects for the array modifier 
If you want it to start out as just a ball though, you might need to do something extra with the ‘sausage’ geometry. Perhaps, animate it with hooks so that it starts out completely squished into a circle but then grows to it’s segment width.
grow animation.blend (941 KB)
Ha, Stan has it there!
Oh, looks like I was slower to reply though 
Thank you so much guys!
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