Any tips to get this slight inflation but with slight deforms?

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Inflate or Deflate a mesh?

Hi All, I have a mesh in the shape of the letter S, shown in image. I would like to make the mesh look inflated and or deflated at different times. Does anyone know how to achieve this in Blender? In 3dsMax I would probably just use melt but I can not figure out how to do this in Blender. A balloon expansion and or melting effect would be ideal. Attachments [image]

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Hi, I have been trying to achieve an effect of a text inflating inside an invisible box. but my results are not quite as expected. I am talking about the weird mesh deformation happening on the boundary of the invisible box all around, I want the mesh to treat the box as a smooth flat surface when it comes in contact with it, instead it’s treating it like a jagged concrete surface. Same goes for the internal collision simulation as well. AS you’d notice the balloon shapes when interacting with e…

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