Help squashing head into a vehicle

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Hiya guys,

I need to animate a large head squashing into a vehicle.
It needs to squash through the door frame like a water balloon.

Any thoughts on how to do this?

Thanks!

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Hmm you need to elaborate more regarding how the head looks like, it’s topology, etc so share some screenshots…

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Hi Michael,

Thanks for the repsonse!
It will be a general retopologised head sculpt. A bit stylised.
I’ve yet to sculpt it but looking at solutions ahead of time in case there’s anything to consider before retopolgising and rigging.

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I believe one way is to create a shape key for the entrance and the same key mirrored (on X maybe) for the exit and animate them somehow (like in the example below).

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Hi Kyrgr,

Thanks for response.
Awesome. Yes, shape keys are looking to be the best way to go about it.
I was messing around with some simulations but not getting the effect I want. So hand animated shape keys sculpting the form will give more granular control over the effect. Actually very excited to try it.

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