Animating the Pages Turning in a Magazine

Firstly two boxes were created, these where made to represent the main body of the book that would be left untouched. After this two more thin boxes were created to represent the cover of the brochure. A skew modifier was placed on the two original boxes to allow them to meet in the middle and also create the look of a book.

For the pages the quad patch tool was used and this was drawn on the right box representing the main bulk of the book. A dummy helper was then placed in the middle of the book and then linked to the 1st quad patch, which allowed the page to rotate in reference to the middle of the book.

The same steps were then taken to create the second page in the book.

Once the brochure (book) was created this was placed on top of the table and then the animation of the pages turning was created.

The bend modifier was applied to the first page after turning the auto key frame button on. The page was then rotated and bent to create the look of a page turning. This was then replicated for the 2nd page in the brochure. To adjust the timing of the turning of the pages the key frames were moved on the dope sheet.

Material of magazine pages were then added to each page apart from the last one.