3D Pop Up Book Animation…

 

 

Never Fear God is Near: A Lesson in Courage.

This is video by my friends at The Fantastic World – Matthew and Jared Young. These guys are great and are producing some high quality media content for children’s ministries. I recommend you check out their website at www.thefantasticworld.com. They have a brand new Christmas curriculum that’s shipping next month.

This video is special to me because I made the pop up book animation on Esther that is found about midway through the video. It was great project to work on and I’m glad the guys gave me a chance to do it. They really gave me a lot of freedom to be creative. To give you some background on the project. Ben McKay help me with the video project as well. We created the book by take front and side pictures of an actual book. We made it a 3D image in After Effects. Each graphic was purchased from vectorstock.com (it’s a royalty free image site) and we took them into Photoshop and applied a paper texture and stroke to them. Each image was imported into After Effects. Each image was a 3D layer in After Effects. If the image was going to encompass both pages, I would bring it in, place it, then duplicate the layer. I would mask off each layer so that I could “fold” the graphic when the page was turned. To make the the pop ups look better I moved the anchor point of each graphic. By placing the anchor point at the bottom of say Esther, then I would be able to fold that image from laying flat to upright because the anchor point would keep it planted on the surface of the page. After the page turned, I would hand keyframe the images so they would follow the turn of the page. Once the page was almost closed, I would drop the opacity to 0 so that I could close the page and image wouldn’t pop through. The smoke was created using Trapcode Particular. The camera movement was created with the built-in camera from After Effects. We animated to a scratch track. The guys were going to put a final, so I made the output a .png sequence with transparency. The final output was 1920×1080. If you have any thoughts or questions, feel free to comment.