Non Linear Bend Deformer Maya tutorial.

This is a tutorial to show how you can quickly bend geometry into a spiral, corkscrew or spring. Even a quick bend around something or just being generally wibbly in space. I spent so long trying to find a way to this and wanted to share. I have a stinky cold so again excuse any swamp hog sound effects. Feel free to ask any questions or correct anything I'm doing horribly wrong!

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[abalaja2010]

how about the polygon cube? can you make another tutorial for that? pls??

[ferretsniff]

@abalaja2010 What would you like to know about the cube? Like how to bend it around something or animate it using the bed deformer?

[abalaja2010]

@ferretsniff yes! how to bend the cube on both side, just like putting a curve on side..

[ferretsniff]

@abalaja2010 I shall give it a go. I'm working tonight but will have a look tomorrow and see what I can come up with?

[ferretsniff]

@abalaja2010 *bend not bed...

[thedarktimesofterion]

Thanks for this tutorial. I really needed to find a way to bend a 3d page, and this really helped!

[ferretsniff]

@thedarktimesofterion You're welcome. Took me an age to find anything! Glad it helped ^^

[NevaranUniverse]

any other way to use bending functions?

[seaniepie]

This was so incredibly helpful. Just completed an ad for a toy company and needed a way to roll up some corrugated card into thin rolls (using a stretched out poly cube). Was then able to use another deformer to get it to roll out in a circle too ( and even get it to lean into the circle).

Thanks for the tutorial and keep them coming.

[CGAnimatorX]

This was very helpful. Thank you soo much!

[abalaja2010]

@ferretsniff thanks.. typo error..