Modeling paper

[leminilab]

Hi,

I have this assignment for a stage design for which I must draw my inspiration from this:
http://www.constanceguisset.com/index.php?/scenographie/le-funambule/

My client really wants to have paper stripes falling from the ceiling and rolling on the stage randomly and making waves and whatever crazy random shapes paper does...

I can think of a way to do it using curviloft for example but it's going to be very time consuming modeling a few stripes...
Hence my questions to you guys: do you think of a better/more simple way to model this...

Thanks for checking this!

[driven]

idea before sleep...

there's lots of curvy lines in draw_metal then use TIG's vector puller,

and I'd probably use Fredo's Taper scaling as well...
john

[leminilab]

@driven said:

idea before sleep...
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there's lots of curvy lines in draw_metal then use TIG's vector puller,

and I'd probably use Fredo's Taper scaling as well...
john

Hi! Thank you very much for your help!
I ended up doing something quite similar to what you did with curve maker.
I didn't know of vector puller so I duplicated my curve and used Curviloft to make the junction between my two curves (longer...).

Here's the result after a little more tweaking, populating a circle with two different instances and placing three different colors spotlights pointing up:
[attachment=0:1rdrd1sp]<!-- ia0 -->paper drops.png<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:1rdrd1sp]

This is close enough to the effect I was looking for! I'll now have a look at vector puller to see how it can make me save time in the future 'sounds like it's gonna be a LOT!).
Thanks again for your dedication and have the nicest day!

P.S.: How would you use taper scaling?

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[leminilab]

Hi,

Sorry to bother you again but I can't seem to find the plugin you're mentioning...

Can anyone point me to this vector puller?

EDIT: found it here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=25293

Thanks a lot driven and TIG!

[driven]

sorry,

thought I'd replied to say it looked great... must of forgot,

I was just 'short-handing' the Fredo Scale's http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=17948#p144180ability to taper anything.

john

[leminilab]

Thank you very much for your precious help!
Take care.
Nicolas