Opening book in After effects

[John Cuevas]

The animation for this is relatively straight forward, it’s making a realistic book that is the hard part of creating this project.

Create solids for the pages and covers, offseting them in Z-space, to make a 3d feel. Adjust the anchor point of your cover(your cover might be 20 to 30 solids, or a 3d rectangle) to the spine of the book and then open it up by animating the y rotation of your cover.

AE Tuts has a very long tutorial on doing this for a popup book:

https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/unfold-a-magical-pop-up-book-simulation-day-1/

Also found a free download of a very very complex animated project of a 3D book cover open. If you are new to AE, adjusting this to fit your needs might be pretty difficult, but here it is:

https://www.filesonic.com/file/64562147

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[Duca Simone luchini]

Many, many thx!

[Mike Moon]

You wouldn’t happen to still have that complex pop up book project source files would you? The filesonic link no longer works :/