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Page Turning Effect
Have you ever seen a ghost movie where the pages in a book magically turn by themselves rapidly. Does anyone know how to go about creating that effect?
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Don’t think “Computer Effect”…. think “Practical Effect”.
Since this effect has been done for MANY decades, you know they didn’t do it with software. It was more along the lines of real book with the pages turned by an off-camera pressure hose and air nozzle, carefully aimed, locked into a jig and connected to a pressure regulator.
Once you get the position of the nozzle AND the air pressure dialed in, you can then repeat the effect. Yeah, it takes hours to get to that point. But how long do you think it would take to do the same thing in a 3D application?
And why a 3D app instead of AE? Because AE’s particular flavor of 3D doesn’t allow surfaces to bend — they have to be planar objects, which you then manipulate in 3D space. Your book would look like your pages are made out of cardboard, which doesn’t bend, instead of paper, which easily bends.
If you want to see how the cardboard-page AE version of a page turn looks, Serge Hamad has a tutorial on it in the AE section of the Creative COW.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV
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