u/AndeeWow

Imagine the mouth as a tube or long cylinder with capped ends. Is there a method where you could have that kind of tube-mouth animation style but with a single continuous shape that breaks/recombines? The picture i drew literally depicts exactly what i'm trying to do--a tube shape mouth that can turn into a torus type shape, at the very least. The second picture i included depicts the STYLE i'm going for, but such a rig can't do what i want.

I tried different things like skin modifiers on bezier curves but you can't exactly combine and split parts of a bezier curve shapekey-style.

I'm thinking maybe geometry nodes? What kind of tool am i gonna be using here? Any guidance would be appreciated!

3.1 GPA -- my first two years of undergrad were abysmal and i had to take a step back and re-evaluate. When i returned to college on my own terms I knocked it out of the park, 4.0 gpa for the last two years, but it only could drag my GPA up to a 3.1. At the time i wasn't considering law school so obviously I would have done things differently.

I'm taking the LSAT in june and august but looking to apply this fall--but my PT results are just all over the place. My diagnostic was 164 and since then my PTs have been 169, 167, and just last week 163 😭 I've been drilling on powerscore and everything but i can't seem to consistently raise that score! If anything i feel like i'm getting dumber. 🥲

In your experience what sort of score should I be shooting for to be comfortable making up for a 3.1 GPA? I imagine it's not possible to substantially improve by june but possibly by august? I'd like to do the best i can and see where that can take me.

I know I'm not T14 material or anything but I'm based in the Northeast--what connecticut, Massachusetts, or NYC schools should i be considering?

thanks

Best method to animate a simple cartoon mouth like this?

Failing to improve--what's my outlook as is?