Blender how do I twist these Bunny ears together

mjoe67886 · June 6, 2022, 8:04am

I’m trying to animate these Bunny ears twisting together like in this picture of Roger rabbit

I’d like to have them animate like they do in this clip of him https://youtu.be/LUaC_zS-5jE?t=68 … I’m trying the twist section of the simple deform modifier but I can’t seem to make it work what’s the easiest way to get this animation done… Here is my blend file what I got so far https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rRhQnNBBtdeL4sXdiT05kez6onUCTjjb/view?usp=sharing (done uploading the Google Drive in like 1:14 AM Pacific Standard Time) thanks in advance for any help

DeckardX08 · June 6, 2022, 9:15am

Such cartoony deformations are a challenge in 3d. Your best bet is to have both ears as separate objects, then deform each using a spline and Curve modifier

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/modifiers/deform/curve.html

DigitalMonster · June 6, 2022, 9:16am

Hello, maybe with an armature that follows a curve :

and just animate the curve as you wish.

moonboots · June 6, 2022, 9:54am

You can create an object made of 2 cylinders and give it a Simple Deform (Twist mode) modifier:

Also you could parent to a chain of bones and you rotate the bones (segment each bone so that it makes the shape twist smoothly):

Or create a second shapekey that will be the cylinder twisted with the help of the Proportional Editing:

mjoe67886 · June 6, 2022, 2:46pm

thanks everybody…’i will try all these things…’off I go