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    Opening book in After effects

    Hallo everybody,
    anyone know how to create and animate a 3D book with after effects?
    I can't find any tutorial about in in DT Library.

    Many thanks!

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    Re: Opening book in After effects

    Hey Theiamania! Technically I guess you could set up a few planes in 3D space rotated strategically to give the illusion of a 3D book in After Effects to fake a 3D book, but as After Effects isn't really a 3D program you're never going to get the same level of quality of a 3D object by only using After Effects instead of using a real 3D program. Depending on the complexity of your project, it may save time to actually use a 3D program to achieve this. Is there a specific look you're going for?

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    Re: Opening book in After effects

    Hi Dan,
    I understand and i think too is a good idea to realize the book directly in Maya to have a full control. However we can a make a faster job also in AE. In AE my problem i, above all, to understand how give a little big thickness to pages and cover book. Any ideas about?
    (Keep in mind that in my actual case, in AE, I'm not interested to have a collapsible pages, but just give a different thickness to cover book and single pages).

    ThX and Bye!

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    Re: Opening book in After effects

    Hi Dan, in this link can you see what i mean:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=1qp6G7ip6-g
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=1qp6G7ip6-g

    in these examples ther's also a movement of collapsible pages...

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    Re: Opening book in After effects

    Ah! Thanks for the link! Quite honestly, if that's the specific look you're going for then it'd probably be cheapest to purchase the After Effects template to reverse engineer their project to see how they put it together. I see they have a link to purchase it here: http://www.revostock.com/After-Effec...tm?a_aid=27657

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