surface deform with shape key for animation

[rick03261]

with keyframe value 1

without keyframe value 1

Hello I’m building my own creature. I’m trying to implement belly fat using Surface Deform and change belly size through shape keys. Adjusting without using animation keyframes works fine. But with keyframes it will be less than the intended volume. Can’t I use Surface Deform and Shape Keys together?

my Blender skill is still at the beginner level and i uses a translator, so i have a lot of questions and conversations can be weird. sorry and thank you for all help

(and little wip )

[Tombot]

Well I’m not an expert, but I think it may be possible to bake the dynamic deformations of the belly into the animation allowing you to turn them into shape keys. I know that’s how people make animations of colored balls randomly sorting themselves into images etc.

[rick03261]

I didn’t understand what it meant. And I found that cloth modifier affects shape key animation frame shape deformation

[Skirret_Resetar]

This looks amazing, but I suggest adding more solidity to the belly by having the arms try to avoid the belly instead.
Body fat has only so much give.

[rick03261]

That’s right I have to put arms up a bit more but I’m lazy and re-used the previous motion for testing. And I agree that the belly needs to be more solid. But even if I touch the settings, I don’t know what to do, and if I set it wrong, the mesh explodes. I’m using Surface Deform and Cloth Modifire.