WordPlay Technical Issues

In class today, I was working on the WordPlay project on the road section again. With your help, I learned a couple simple ways to create a path by using spline and loft and sweep NURBS. Although I could create the path from those methods, the path was not clean. I failed to model just a simple road because once I applied texture to the road, the texture was broken into sections according to the polygons created in the path.

Another issue that I had today was when I tried to animate the word "SLOW". My intention to animate "SLOW" was to make it wiggle out from the ground and I want it to imitate how a worm moves. This was very tricky for me to do. So, here's what I did.

I attached the deformer "bend" to the object (the word) so that I can make the word wiggle while it moves. The problem was that I couldn't animate the deformer at the same time that I animated the object from one point to another. I tried to animate both the position and the deformer strength on a simpler object like a cube in a new document, still it didn't work!

I think I have to bring this issue to class next time and ask you look at it later.

Meanwhile, I decided to make it easier by just creating another spline, then attach the word to the new spline and make it move very slowly for now.