book page flip

here’s my attempt at a page flip animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7E4BNy_R7A

you can get the blend file here: http://sites.google.com/site/treatkor/Home/downloads (it’s called pageflip_06.blend)
direct link to download the blend: http://sites.google.com/site/treatkor/Home/downloads/pageflip_06.blend?attredirects=0&d=1

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Looks very smooth!! At first, I was thinking you were someone that was posting earlier this week about how to create this effect, but I’m wrong. So how did you do this? With an armature??

Randy

revolt_randy, yeah, there’s several versions around the forum of this. i decided to use curves. so the page is a curve, with it’s outer control point has a hook to an empty which follows another curve in a half circle above the book. then i added some keyframes to slightly rotate the hook empty to get some extra bending on the page edge. it’s not quite right still, the page seems stiff at the end when it settles.

problem with using curves for this is it makes it hard to texture. for the page texture i used an image mapped to “object”. the object in this case is yet another empty which also follows the half circle curve.
(so many curves and empties :slight_smile: i hope that made sense)

take a look at the blend if you really want to dig into how i did it.

Great stuff, not sure your willing to share this with the world, but would love to have the model on Blendswap.com great work by the way having tried this on my own about 6 months ago I know how difficult it was, at least for me.

matthew/mofx

matthew, thanks. i’ve cleaned up the blend file, added licensing information, and submitted it to blendswap. also thanks for your efforts providing blendswap.com :slight_smile:

a few small tweaks and rendered this time with freestyle.

what is meant by book page flip, please tell me more about it I have listen a lot about it, how can I get them, tell me some useful sites in this regards.