HELP!! Need to make a magazine flipping pages!

[David Bogie]

Stay tuned; someone else may have a totally new way to do this than what I know about. Hope so.

You really can’t do this in AE cleanly. AE is not a true 3D system.
Try experimenting with the CC Page Turn (distort) and you’ll quickly discover the problem of trying to animate flipping pages.

The illusion can be faked with your mastery of a few simple expressions that link front and rear sides of the pages to sequential layers and to the effect position in z space so the pages appear to be stacked. “Simple,” when discussing expressions, is relative, of course.

If all you need to do is flip hard slabs that have page images on them, that’s easy. But you will spend several hours training yourself on precomps, nests, and AE’s peculiar 3d space.

My suggestion is to hire a 3d animator who understand the illusion.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Anne Lawant]

Using CC Page-Turn is described here:
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html?id=44

[Ben Griggs]

Milton,

If you can try out http://www.zaxwerks.com their 3d warps will do this better and easier than any standard effects.

[Kvi Soft]

I have used kvisoft flip book software. It allows people to convert PDF or photos to flipping pages magazine. It is very easy to use. People can use it without any programming skills!
Hope to helpful for you!

[Merry Chen]

well, nice, I prefer to use XFlip flip page magazine software that is one really easy-to-use software to create digital magazines, page flip books, digital brochures, interactive catalogs and photo albums that feature page flipping, streaming audio and many more.