I’m working on a series of two animations of Klein bottles and how they separate into Möbius strips…
For the uninitiated, the Klein-bottle is a topological object with no inside or outside. Nancy Hocking is working on a Klein Bottle based exhibition, and is working with me on two animations of the bottle. Nancy is commissioning the animations, which are based on her storyboards, and she will also be providing pencil-drawn background images.
This is what we have so far…
This is achieved with two videos of the bottle fading into each other… one of the bottle being drawn (build modifier) and one of the bottle splitting.
The bottle splitting is achieved with shape keys - I contemplated rigging the bottle, but I think shape keys will work just as well. However - if anyone can direct me to a tutorial on non-relative shape keys, AKA absolute shape keys, that would be useful.