creating paper

[Walter Soyka]

That’s going to be a bit tricky in Ae alone. I’d guess most of the heavy lifting there was done in a 3D application.

I’ve done a few projects with paper effects and leaned pretty heavily on Mettle FreeForm — though you can get away with a lot more than you’d expect with CC Page Turn if you use multiple instances on the same layer.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Malcolm Desoto]

hmmmmmm, curious. I hadn’t heard of the mettle plugin before. That may be worth exploring. It looks like it may be able to do exactly what I want.

[Walter Soyka]

[Malcolm DeSoto] “hmmmmmm, curious. I hadn’t heard of the mettle plugin before. That may be worth exploring. It looks like it may be able to do exactly what I want.”

You may have it. FreeForm was bundled with AE CS5 and CS5.5.

It’s no longer included with CS6, but it rocks. Very useful and flexible effect.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

FreeForm will not only help you roll the layer in 3d space but you can also displace the surface using a displacement map that will help create the crumpled paper look.
Here’s a tutorial you may find useful:

https://library.creativecow.net/jelescu_tudor/3D-from-2D-image_AE/1

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Chris Bobotis]

Tudor, Walter, thanks for pointing this out 🙂

You can find some free project files for FreeForm V2 and FreeForm Pro here: https://www.mettle.com/free-presets-and-project-files/

More to come very soon.

Cheers,
Chris
mettle.com