Gone with the Wind

I've added my first paint effect onto my project today. It's a grass to represent Spring. It can blow in the wind rather nicely as you can see here in a short preview:




I wish I have more paint effects to show you but I was also busy with a technique called Blend Shape which allows you to animate your model even easier than before. You create two different shapes and this option will allow to swift between the two even if you delete the original shape.

Here's how it works:

• Select the altered shape before shift select the original shape

• Under the Animation window, select Create Deformers -> Blend Shape toolbox

• Type in: blendShape (exactly as shown) in Blendshape node before clicking "Create"

• To actually alter and animate the shape, you need to open its window in Window -> Animate Editors -> Blend shape

• Move the slider up and down to alter the shape.

...unfortunately I have been having problems myself. My shape would not change as you can see below...


I've followed the steps shown above so I'm not sure where I've went wrong...