Animating flower petals as it opens

[pradipta]

Hi,

 

for my recent project i need to work on a 3d flower slowly coming out of its bud phase and opening the petals one by one... is there any software that can do this job more precisly or I have to do it using 3dsmax or maya in traditional way? I heard xFrog can animate trees through its various stages, does it also animate flower or such animation?

 

Any help will be greatly appreciated, thanks

[signet]

for the level of control your going to want to properly have art direction over the animation. your going to have to key frame it.

 

I am pretty sure Xfrog and Onyx wont "cut it"

 

It shouldnt be to hard with proper referenace

 

Try looking at timelapse footage from the bbcmotiongallery.com

 

http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/Customer/SearchResults.aspx?searchText=flower+timelapse&type=Simple

[marksee]

You could probably use a morper modifier if you are using 3ds max. Model the flower open as well as closed and morph the closed into the open?

[RobNJ73]

Or an animated Bend modifier on each petal...