To Morph, or to Transform?

[dylan9o4 6 Likes (Newbie)]

Hey guys,

 

I'm trying to figure out how to make this fish vector appear to make a flopping in-air animation.

At first I was thinking that MorphSVG would be the ideal tool for this, but then diving deeper I'm noticing that there's so many paths I believe I would have to find an ideal shapeIndex for each to get a fluid motion. Transform gives off the whole 2D vibe since I'm using scale -1 to give the appearance of a reflection during the flopping animation.

 

This is a link to a primitive attempt to use MorphSVG

 

And this is a link to a primitive attempt using regular transforms

See the Pen dNQdxe by dylan9o4 (@dylan9o4) on CodePen

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

See the Pen bgQLyP by dylan9o4 (@dylan9o4) on CodePen

[OSUblake 9,990 Likes (Superhero)]

You could bend that fish in all sorts of shapes using a mesh with Pixi.js.

 

Aquatic animations have never looked so good... 

 

See the Pen 3ccd225b73a7fb9aeffafbe8afac75f0?editors=0010 by osublake (@osublake) on CodePen

 

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[dylan9o4 6 Likes (Newbie)]

So good indeed, thanks for sharing Blake!

 

Iv'e added "aquatic" as a tag as well in case someone else might search, I wasn't sure of a great term like that.

I will update and edit this post with an example once I get up-to speed on the docs and get my working example.

 

Thanks again Blake, and awesome GSAP community!