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Animating a collection of books
Hi Guys, I have a piece of work to do that invloves naimting 30 paperback books onto screen individually over a period of about 60 seconds.
My client is not able to supply me with all the covers, so is there a way of animating one generic packshot , and then ‘applying’ a flat cover image to fit the packshot, and follow its movement on the screen?
I think parenting may work?
Thanks in advance
Dan
Dan Smith
Bionicmedia
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I’m not clear as to exactly how you want this animation to work. But if you’re trying to paste the cover of a book onto a physical book; that’s totally possible. You could do parenting, motion tracking etc.
The first one may be a bit of work with getting the tracking perfect (depending on the shot). After you’ve finished the first book, you’re all set. Just make sure that all of the book covers are the same size. Then, duplicate your page cover in the comp you just finished, and then ALT + drag the new page cover onto that layer. The old book cover will be replaced with the new one.
Repeat.
I hope I understood what you were trying to do. The kay is to make sure that all of the book covers are the same size.
Good luck!
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Cheers Malcom!
Dan Smith
Bionicmedia
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If you’re intending to animate the covers in a similar fashion, you could animate one cover then duplicate the layer and use the valueAtTime expression to offset the other animations.
Something like this could work:
thisComp.layer(index-1).transform.position.valueAtTime(time-.25)
making sure the layer is below the controlling layer. The offset in time is controlled by the (time -) part of the expression so .25 is 1/4 second.
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