Animate pages flipping in a book

[daustin]

I'm modeling a book and its pages, but I need the cover and the pages within to open and turn. Does anyone have advice to make this happen?

[laxman]

how many pages do you need? If its only a few you could make the pages softbodies then constrain the end of the pages to something and animate that moving so the page follows. So you would set the pivot point of the object that moves the page to the spine of the book, then just animate the rotation.

[papa]

That is a good idea Laxman, You could also take a jointed / weighted approach to solving this issue. I have also used hair curves and have them drive the chains to make this type of deformation.

You could also do it with clusters and animate a curve with history used to loft a surface as your final object to be rendered.

Give us some more details and we'll see if we can lend a hand.

Papa