As someone who owns a lot of vinyl in various states, that is both a possible and realistic depiction of a pretty extreme warping. I have one or two that look exactly like this.
I would say, though, it’s questionable stylistically why you’d want that much of a warped record in an otherwise clean (and context-free) scene.
Well, I started doing the project because I wanted to try out an idea for animating something following a surface (like the pickup on the record), so I wanted a pronounced effect. I also feel like it gets a more "retro" and cozy feel to the scene - like someone has brought out that one beat-up record you play every Christmas. But in retrospect I should probably have toned it down a bit.
For anyone interested; I have a mesh with a single vertex with a shrinkwrap modifier set to project and the target set to the surface (the record), and then I parent an empty to that vertex, and another empty to that empty (to have an offset). I then simply use a track-to constraint on the thing I want to follow the surface.
I own over 2000 records and they definitely can warp like this. Usually when mailed incorrectly or left someplace hot like a car or mail delivery van. There are various vinyl flattening repair kits around that aim to fix issues like these. A buddy of mine has one that’s basically a pouch with the internals of an electric blanket and some heavy weights to sandwich the record between. He says it works pretty well but there’s still a slight warp even in the best cases.
Thanks! They can be, but I'm not sure they'd actually play 😅 Yeah it's a bit much - I felt like I needed to exaggerate it a bit for something to actually "happen" in the video.
Yeah, I agree the amount of bend to the vinyl looks a bit unrealistic but otherwise it looks quite good. Actually put on my headphones hoping to hear like an end of record clunk-scritch audio accompaniment haha.