Animating Clothes with masking (ghost anme example)

[Víctor Paredes]

It's just a test, but imagine the possibilities.

anme 7.1
http://www.mediafire.com/?ch77sul3nxnoccx

[Genete]

Simple but effective, like always.
-G

[Mozbo]

It's just a test, but imagine the possibilities.

That is really smooth! I can see it as a swaying skirt very easily, or a cape with a flourish, so many different applications.
Great job!

[PARKER]

Thanks for the file.

[Onionskin]

Great technique, thanks

[abou123]

i dont get it

[monkeywisdom]

That's a great gift you gave to advanced users. How about explaining it for the rest of us so that it's not just your inside club who understands it. Thanks.

[neeters_guy]

It's a way to show the underside or upstage part of an object, particularly useful for clothlike objects. You could also achieve this by duplicating the object and laying it on top of the original, but you'd have a lot of points to manage. This is a simpler way.

To create this effect, follow the masking settings:

Bone (hide all)
|_grey (mask this layer)
|_white (add to mask / exclude strokes)

The underside of the ghost is the grey layer which reveals itself when it overlaps the ghost (white). The nice thing is when you don't need it, you can simply move it out of the way.

As for the movement, it's an application of selgin's rope technique. See this thread:

Short tutorial to animate ropes, clothes, chains, hair, etc

Hope that helps.

[monkeywisdom]

Cool. That's a good start. I downloaded the anme file. Now, I'll read your post 5 or 6 times, stare at the anme file 5 or 6 times and look at Selgin's methods. Looks like a good technique.

[gr33ndaybd]

nice share