Topic: how to animate a wave

so I was thinking about doing a lego surfing video but was wondering what to use for waves. I thought about using a towel but it just doesn't look very good. Any suggestions?

Re: how to animate a wave

This is real hard to do but it looks pretty good.

Alternatively you could use plastic wrap and mess around with it until it looks proper.

Re: how to animate a wave

Clay.

Not literally dead, just no longer interested in Lego or animation.

Re: how to animate a wave

Here is a similar looking technique, and here's something for when the waves hit the shore. mini/eh

Last edited by Pritchard Studios (January 1, 2013 (10:47am))

Re: how to animate a wave

I liked your wave breaking technique and Hickox's waves

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Re: how to animate a wave

I have actually used the brick wave technique, and then created 3 sets of waves and then looped the waves in after effects for a beach scene that didn't have any other animation in the water, it let me animate one thing at a time and looks really good.