Eurovision 2009 Effect

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Hi there, please keep in mind that the COW has a worldwide audience -not everyone knows what you’re talking about if you refer to anything that dones’t necessarily have a global audience. And you can help yourself better by posting a link to any video or image that gives others an idea as to what you’re looking for.

Cheers
RoRK

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[Andrej Spilevoj]

This is an example from the Eurovision 2009, before each song there was a short presentation with the flipping book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbocLxXkmHQ

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Good Job on the link! 🙂

Now, what was the question again?

Just kidding! OK, it’s a complex efffect but it’s not that difficult.

You’ll need to know how to flip a layer (page) and kowing how to place your Anchor Point is crucial.

Making the objects pop up is easy with the y-scale property.

Add some camera movements and/or use a null and use it as a parent to the other layers and animate the null to get different perspectives.

Take note that the video sample you showed uses 3D objects and very likely a 3D software to put everything together. With AE, you won’t have the luxury of moving the camera too much without giving away the fact that you are using 2.5D images.

HTH
RoRK

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[Michael Szalapski]

Roland is correct. This is a rather easy effect to emulate since AE’s 3d is essentially flat planes in space – it just takes some time, work and planning to make it look good.
Yes; they used a 3d application to do that piece – you couldn’t get something identical to theirs without some actual 3d software. However, like Roland said, you can get a look similar enough to it. It’s just a lot of well planned camera movement and carefully placed elements.

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[Andrej Spilevoj]

There is no problem with the 3d objects, I am on Cinema 4D too. The question is how to fold it so as it is on the video? I know it is hard to explain in words, video tutorial would be of more help. Thanks, anyway, guys.

[Michael Szalapski]

If you want to make a video unfold in After Effects you are a little limited on what you can do, but you can still make it work. It depends on how complex you want to make it.

In AE there are normally several ways to achieve the same goal. I would thing the simplest solution would be to duplicate the layer you want to fold. Mask the bottom half of one copy and the top half of the other copy. Move the anchor points for each layer to the edge of the mask so the anchor points are practically touching. The keyframe x rotation. That gets you a basic fold.
Then comes the spicing it up. Put a null layer at the bottom of the image. Parent both pieces to the null and keyframe the null’s x rotation. That way it flips up as it unfolds.
This should put you on the right road to unfolding things in AE. You can make it much more complicated by having more than two pieces and the use of some clever parenting.

Or you can do it in Cinema4d.

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