Hi guys,

I am working through the Learning Maya 5: Foundation book and am stuck on the second project.

The brief is to design a jack in the box that pops out. That bit has gone fine. What I am now trying to do is to animate the box so it gives a cartoon bulge before jack pops out and then contracts when he emerges.

I am following the instructions word by word but I cant seem to make the box bulge. I have created a lattice and I am playing around with moving and scaling the CV's as you can see from the two pictures (if I have managed to attach them to this message correctly!!)

It seems that when I select the second from bottom group of four CV's and scale or move them out the box doesnt bulge but creates an angle sort of like an upside down pyramid.
:p

Some help with this would be gratefully appreciated as this is causing me big problems in regards to finishing of my model.

Thanx in advance

Towser