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Creating a book animation as introduction
Hey,
I’m currently working on a project where I would need to animate a book as part of my introduction.
I was thinking since my skills in after effects are not so good to film a blank book where i simply turn pages and then use after effects and photoshop to replace blank pages with old book textures using masks.
I was wondering if you got any idea concerning this as to improve the result or any suggestions on how to do to make a good book animation. If you also got any example from existing movies with good animations like this, i would also be glad to take a look and get some inspiration out of it.
Thanks
Jerome -
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I am just learning After effects but it seems that shooting video with acurate lighting to show all detail through the turning of the pages may well be a good start, as far as the book and page realism goes. Watch your shadows. You need some direction of light on the book to have it appear 3 dimensional. Then let the power of after effects create your pape content so it is ledgable through out the turn of the page. You may need to rotoscope during each frame.
Using camera and light will help page content to appear realistic as to the video of the books page turning shadows. Further intriging animation could be done by parenting page content with a null object. I have only been studying AE about 6 days so I hope one of the resident guru’s will be inspired to help you from here. Since I am so inexperienced it will be interesting to see exactly how far off base I am with this solution. Anyway, my suggestions will probably be quite time consuming but it could also be the most realistic way to accomplish your task.
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You could maybe track the pages using the Perspective Corner Pin tracker and apply that to the Text Layer you have. You can see a tutorial about it here https://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/tip.jsp?p=1&id=100241&xml=aft65cornerpin . But so you know, if you bend the pages a lot when you turn them, you have to use other methods beside this to bend the text layer to simulate the motion. there are effects that can do that in AE and there is also of course the plug-in Freeform from Forge (https://www.forge.net).
This method could take plenty time, especially if you are turning a lot of pages. But if you use this, try not to bend the pages much as you turn them, makes life easier.
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you can use the CC pageturn effect
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Hi,
Here is a project that may help:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=726954&archive=TBasicaly you have to scan some book covers and pages and put them together in AE 3D space.
Whith a little tracking you could easily combine your book with some real footage.I hope this may help.
Salut.
Serge
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