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Morris Barrier
August 26, 2010 at 9:51 pm in reply to: How to recreate this “Story Book” Effect

There are many tutorials out there for turning a page and AE includes CC page turn. Find the tutorial with the look you like best and go with that. As for the specific elements:

:17 – I assume by transition you mean the way the camera spins around to a new scene. I think a simple X axis point of interest pivot will suffice but this piece has some complex camera moves. Everybody has their tools of choice for animating but for absolute precision I go with Andrew Kramer’s Sure Target 2.0. Its free and he has a tutorial that breaks it down. Plus the preset comes with wiggle and depth of field, all the elements you need for realistic but precise movement.
:27 – As for the 3d bed, if you’re like me and not a 3d user there are ways to get around this but I’m thinking a few elements in this piece were 3d. Eran Stern has some tutorials on how to create basic 3d elements on his site. Learn from him and you can probably create your own simple bed in Photoshop and AE.
1:48 – spin effect – that is just a simple text animation. Text is vector based in AE so create 1 text layer and make it large and flip in 90 degrees. Then create another much smaller text layer and nest it close and in the same Z space as the other text. Move your camera to one text layer, turn off Depth of field, and key frame out or in to the other layer. Again, Sure Target would make something like this a piece of cake.

Hope that gets you on the right path!

Morris Barrier

Mac Pro 2.8Ghz Dual Quad Core
Morris Barrier
May 14, 2010 at 5:38 pm in reply to: Copy Expressions Only Weirdness

CS4 9.02

Mac Pro 2.8Ghz Dual Quad Core
Morris Barrier
September 12, 2009 at 12:46 pm in reply to: Moving Replicated Shapes along a motion path

Thanks all. Duplicating and offset worked just fine considering I only needed a few copies of the shape. Awesome. Thanks again.
Morris Barrier
February 15, 2007 at 7:01 pm in reply to: Ok, one more time….anamorphic to widescreen….

Sorry, I shot anamorphic but instead of choosing the letterbox option I chose squeeze. Anyway, I think I’ve got it figured out. I’ll try the ‘anamorphiciser’ tool. But if you have other suggestions please let me know. Thanks.
Morris Barrier
April 28, 2005 at 2:06 am in reply to: Casting a shadow in photoshop

Lucky me! I happened to pick this one up at the library.

Thanks.
Morris Barrier
April 6, 2005 at 6:06 pm in reply to: Photoshop image resizing for portrait images?

Thanks. That’s what I’ve decided to do. But since they are .psd files I’m having to render them but its no big deal.

Later.