useful slug is pleased to present this new TensionMorpher deformer for messiah:studio. Below is a video tutorial on how to set it up. The deformer / weight tool combo uses the tension of the edges to find out if it’s being squashed or stretched, and performs a tangent space morph.
Here’s a little function that will allow you to have an object ‘trail’ after the target object. Essentially following it’s world motion path, but with a time delay.