sorry if I was a bit vague, it's kinda difficult to explain images with words I guess. So here's an image of what I meant. Even if I have a reasonable high poly object, using a lattice will result in having a straight line from lattice point a to point b. I'd rather like this to be curved so the deformed object does not look too edgy.
And what I want to do to animate type like a flee circus so basically the letters bounce and swing around a little and eventually form a word.