Animating stills – faking 3D

[Mark Briody]

I won’t say this is impossible, but AE is entirely the wrong program for that look.

Any 3d app (Maya, XSI, Max, Lightwave, etc) can accomplish this effect in a number of ways.

[Jack Hilkewich]

Just cut the cover off the book in photoshop. Erase everything but the cover and then save it as a .tiff with transparency (alpha). Bring that to AE turn it into a 3d layer, move the anchor point to the bottom edge (where the spine of the book would be) then rotate it in the proper direction. you may have to duplicate the cover layer and then move it a pixel behind the front then ALT replace it with a solid color to act as the inside cover.

[Crjoe]

the second layer is a great idea. I have something that I am fairly happy with. Thanks for all the imput.
I would love to do some of this in Maya but haven’t taken the time to learn it yet.

Thanks again guys,

Joe

[Mike Clasby]

Have you seen this from Serge? Click on the 3D book, comes with aep so you can see how it’s done. It’s great:

https://www.nyc-visual.com/movies_2.html

[Mike Clasby]

Try this;

https://www.nyc-visual.com/movies_2.html