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double sided page turns
i am making an animation which contains some 3d but is mostly done through trickery i suppose.
the animation is of a desk. there is a magazine on the desk. pages flick through and stop at pages revealing active content suck as moving pictures within the pages. using pre-comping, i have made it look as is the pages are curling and are in 3-d. the actual book is 3d, but the effect isnt if you get what i mean.
what i wanted to know was, is there an easy way or a plug in that would enable me to have a layer with two different faces (front, back)?
i know page curl has something like this, but it is a 2d effect and would be highly impractical i think.
cheers if you can help
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dont know why my names in red either???
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The forum highlights your name because you’re logged in, or well “cookied in” 😉
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I’m not really sure how your doing it, but you can have two sides to a page, but you need two layers in 3D occupying the same space (the second on offset less than 1 pixel).
Basically you can duplicate the page, and then replace the dup with the backside layer (Alt drag the Backside from the project window onto the dup in the timeline).
Now (P) on the Backside layer and change it’s position less than 1 pixel (probably Z direction), so as an example, if the original page (and the backside) are at 200,150,0, change the backside to 200,150, -0.1 and see if it stays as the backside or pops out front, if it’s in front change it to 200, 150, 0.1 and you should be good to go.
Here is an earlier post with other suggestions to accomplish the same thing:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=890690
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Oh, I forgot about Parenting. I was assuming the original “Front page” was parented to another controling layer, if not, after you make the dup and swap in the Backside, and offset that less than 1 pixel, you can parent the Backside to the Frontside and when you move the frontside they will act as one page, front and back.
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This video, despite its creepy religious overtone, is a pretty good tutorial on how to make a magazine flip:
https://churchmediadesign.tv/after-effects-magazine-page-flip/
However I set it up by putting two pages, front/back at the same position (with a 0.1 difference in the Z axis) and same anchor point. Then I parent the front. Turn it 180 in X.To fix the mirrored backpage I set the front end page’s orientation to
0.180.0
and the back 180.0.180works like a charm
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