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photo being tossed down
I’m trying to do a segment where I have 3 photo’s being “tossed down” or floating onto the screen. I’ve played with various expressions and methods, but can’t seem to get it right – it looks too perfect. I’m looking for a haphazard, “not perfect” look – does anyway have any ideas? Thanks
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I think this has been covered, but with floating leaves. Try an advanced COW search for “leaf” or “leaves”.
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Sorry I wasn’t clear enough – I really want a harder/faster look than floating – more like a photo being tossed down onto a table – right now i’ve made the photo 3d and am varying the position and z rotation, but it looks very stilted…
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I have done this in the past. The hardest part is getting the keyframes timing right. We basically had a photo and would throw it down on the counter and then try to match the movement. I remember also using a page turn effect to slight offset a corner as the photo fell. Also important is that when the photo hits the surface, it has to slide slightly…it also has to interact with other photos already on the surface…..pushing them out of the way or moving them slightly as it falls onto them.
Good luck,
Mark
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Tape some reference.
Throw a couple photos onto a table, observe what happens frame by frame. Expressions won’t really simulate the subtleties of the animation you’ll need to create.
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Definitely shoot some video from the angle you want and you might even be able to motion track that footage using corner pinning. This should give you a pretty realistic motion (since it IS real). I like the idea of using the page turn effect as well.
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All good suggestions – thank you! I’ll get going on the filming now – I like the idea of page curl too – thanks again.
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