I need to model a piece of paper tearing and rolling up. I have done paper scrolls rolling out following a curve path, but not where it separates from a plane. I am a moderate beginner with Blender so any help will be appreciated.
I don’t think a question like this can be taken seriously without any visual information. How do you need it to look? There are thousands of kinds of paper, infinite number of ways they can tear and roll up.
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…then you might thing about doing this in reverse ? And also cut the model where the tear should appear, sepearate it an use the animation only on the tear appart piece…
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