How to make a snake creeping

toonertime · Post by **toonertime** » Fri May 08, 2009 3:40 am

thanks for the insight! I think I was adjusting the bones at frame 0
i moved the bones around on different frames and got my
little worm to wiggle! Not in front of the kids, tho.

toonertime · Post by **toonertime** » Fri May 08, 2009 4:19 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z9WqZyqUek

toonertime · Post by **toonertime** » Fri May 08, 2009 4:20 am

the above url just shows a quick test I did using
text and running them over some bones to
make a fluid movement. Great, simple technique!

mrpcsol · Post by **mrpcsol** » Sat May 09, 2009 9:31 pm

toonertime wrote:the above url just shows a quick test I did using
text and running them over some bones to
make a fluid movement. Great, simple technique!

good job!

TheChewanater · Post by **TheChewanater** » Sun May 10, 2009 1:38 am

For any Blender users, someone asked on the Nystic forums how to do this, and I did it in Blender. If you want to see it, here's the link: http://www.freewebs.com/chewanater/slither.blend

stardvd555 · Post by **stardvd555** » Tue May 19, 2009 4:48 am

terrible

billamu · Post by **billamu** » Thu May 21, 2009 3:12 am

Nice work, TheChewanater. Good to see the same technique works well in Blender too

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 5:46 pm

Ok, here is a dragon from a project I'm working. I wanted to post the finished 8 shorts we are making, but I couldn't resist to put this animation here

Dragon swf (just open the link in a new tab).

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:14 pm

I couldn't open your dragon, but damn! Thanks for posting this thread, I never would have thought of that.

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:16 pm

Blue wrote:I couldn't open your dragon, but damn! Thanks for posting this thread, I never would have thought of that.

try copying and pasting this link
http://www.freewebs.com/tazatriste/moho ... o%2012.swf

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:33 pm

WOW, LOVE IT!

Vagabond · Post by **Vagabond** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:20 pm

Here's another way to use the technique in AS. I tried to duplicate a magnifying glass video I saw on YouTube. Since I have to move the image layer instead of the bone layer I wonder if that video was done in another program.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8HeAVshRAQ

Nice use of the technique by Toonertime too. I couldn't view the wavy water effect. I was thinking of heat waves rising from a street too. Just need to keep the image still and move the bones.

abou123 · Post by **abou123** » Sat May 29, 2010 3:31 am

Hepglon no get it?

fracturedray · Post by **fracturedray** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:36 pm

Using the tips here I did a few test because I wanted to see if it could be used for water ripples in some way.

I tried scaling the bones to distort the shape as it flowed along the bones. Distorted the shape using columns of bones in a line as well as some other columns set up like a comb's teeth with scale/position changes.

All in all it was interesting to see how it worked and I may use what I've learned. Just need to do a little more testing.

Here the file if you wanted to see how I tinkered with the idea.
http://www.mediafire.com/?xtf13i1n24r8toc

How to make a snake creeping

i am cured

text test using bone ripples

text test

Re: text test

wooooooooooow

Uhhh?