ANIMATED DISTORTION

Distortion boxes are often used to model, but using them to stretch and squash a character during animation is even more powerful.  A Distortion box is simply a special kind of model and can be selected and manipulated to animate the underlying model.

 

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BONES

Bones can be added to Distortion boxes to make them easier to animate

 

POSES

Poses may be added to Distortion boxes.  This can make animating a fairly dense distortion model less tedious, especially when the motion is used repetitively

 

INSTANCES

A single Distortion box can be used multiple times (instanced) on different parts of the model.  This is particularly useful when work and time have already been invested into bones and poses for an existing Distortion box.

 

NESTING

Distortion boxes can also be nested.  A Distortion box affects all geometry from its target bone on down, including the target's children bones.  If one of these child bones is controlled by another Distortion box, then the outer Distortion box will control the points of the child Distortion box also.

 

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