How do I animate a 3D mobile with swinging pieces?

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Hi fellow blenderers,

I’ve been asked to create a 3d logo that will be in the style of a hanging mobile. Does anybody know how I would go about hanging the pieces from 3d string in blender and then rotating the mobile so that the pieces swing on the end of the string? Would I need to model and rig the string? Or is there a way to use the game engine? I’m not really sure at the moment.

Here’s an example of the kind of thing I’m talking about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADGh1iEmnCk

Thanks for your help in advance guys!

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just keep it simple and model everything as simple meshes. then just keyframe animate them. the strings will just be long rigid tubes. It’s not like you are making a video game where things will be bumping into the mobile over and over in different ways so you don’t need to do any fancy rigging with logic bricks or anything.

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Hi looduplicate, thanks for the reply. I reckon you might be right. I always find things a bit fiddly when animating in Blender, guess I need the practice then!..