What are you doing that requiresanimating the handles?

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I'm just trying to make the actual curve of the shape change throughout the animation.

I'm animating a soda bottle changing into a martini glass.

What I'd like to do is change the curves at the top of a bottle to the straight line that you see at the top portion of the martini glass.

I've tried this w/ the morph modifier and it turns out scrambled, even w/ the same amount of verticies in a lathed object,....

I've tried this in a lofted object changing the shapes along the way and was only able to achieve a really "pointy" looking curve

I've tried to change the curve in the loft shape deformer (which has so far given me the best outcome) and the bezier curves won't change along w/ the animation

I've also tried lofting the outline of the bottle (shape) around a circular path (which also looked fine) but the bezier points of the shape still won't animate correctly or change over time.....if modified in the animation...they convert the changed curve back to my original object.


I know I've GOT to be missing something....

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Maybe try modelling the bottle manually with polygons so you get a clean mesh.

Not sure what effect your after but morpher is probably the best bet in my opinion.

Heres a little test with some sqeeze modifier animated on-top.

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I think morph might be your best bet still. The thing with morph is, it works best if the target is a modified variation of the original. If you can clone the bottle and remodel it (without adding any verts) to look like a martini glass the morph should work.

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did my quicktime work? I just tried playing it here on my work email machine and its a blue fuzz.

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yep, it works

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