To create the book that I would like in my sequence, I searched up a quick YouTube tutorial and saw that I need to use the Mo-spline tool. I have never used this tool before so this activity will help me to learn what the tool is and how to use it.
This is the tutorial I used:
Below is the time lapse of me creating the book. I found the Mo-spline tool to actually be really intuitive and easy to understand, however even so, some of the tools were hard to manipulate in the way I wanted. For example, when i opened the pages they opened from one starting point, and closed back to the same starting point. It would have been much easier to have a start and end point setting, rather than just animating the end point. This would’ve made the pages closing look much more natural – I found it really hard to get the keyframing right without having that extra setting.
When thinking through how to create a solid book under the pages, I considered creating the book closed and animating it open. This would’ve been extremely difficult. Its hard to get my head around how the pages and spine would move and how that would work so I decided to create the book open instead.
Instead of modelling the book open, I added extra detail at the end by making the spine more 3D and folding the covers backwards.
The lighting I used for this is just two area lights, which is fine but could definitley be improved. Maybe the ambient occlusion needs to be higher so that there are darker parts inbetween the pages. The render is also very bad quality. I rendered it out very quickly so the sampling is very low, but this could be easily fixed if I had more time to render it.
Here is the finished render.
Findings:
- Keyframing is really confusing when multiple parameters have keyframes at the same point
- I need to improve my lighting
- I need to improve my material generation
- My render settings are off
- Books are hard to model.
Bibliography
Darkins Digital (2018). YouTube. [online] Youtube.com. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvEDYCGFNVY [Accessed 27 Nov. 2019].
Jennie Hawkes 