3D Photo Pop Up Book

[Steve Morris]

That can all be done in AE. There used to be a 3D book tutorial here on the cow. I did a quick search and could not find it. I think it was made by serge. It is pretty easy to do when you understand how 3D layers work along with parenting.

[Jim Prisby]

Steve,
I’ve seen the photo album made by Serge, but what I am asking about is the pop up action of the photos when the album opens or closes. This is where the photos appear to fold up or down. How is that created?

[Patrick Hearn]

EDIT:
IGNORE ALL THIS – IT’S UTTER RUBBISH.
(I’ll be interested to see how(if) someone does do it)

OK, just working off the top of my head here.

You’ve got a null for each side of the book (BookL, BookR) and a null for controlling the shutting which BookL is parented to which is on the spine(BookC). Book C rotates to shut the book (actual structrula elemnts of the books I’ll leave to you).

Anyway, even if ther’s a better apporach to that, in the end you’re going to have a null on each side of the book, one of which will move in an arc to the other.

You have a photo you want to pop up. It’s split into 2 layers, left and right side (PhotoL, PhotoR). The anchor point is at the bottom left and right of the images respectively. They’re parented to BookL And BookR respectively.

As the book shuts now the photos will intersect with the book – bad.

OK so we just keyframe (or expression if you want to be able to change speds and stuff easily later) the photos to rotate down to flat.

Probably going to run into some issues keeping the esdges together i guess.

Actually you’ve probably already tried this and that’s what you’re asking about.

Never mind, I might give the a go and post again when I’ve a betteer idea

[Steve Morris]

The end of the video you can see the pop-up pieces go through the page, and disappear. It looks like you could move the anchor points to the seams of the pop-up sections and then just key frame everything else into place by hand along with some parenting. If you keep the camera angle low, as in the opening scene, you can avoid some of the stuff you see at the end.