Pop-up Book Animation - Hamburg

The short animation was primary made as an intro for my final presentation of my Bachelor´s Degree.

First of all I took some watercolors and painted them on different paper sheets, basically blotting paper, and scanned them. Afterwards I used the scans as basis for a texture I drawn, by using ZBrush, on the 3D models. The whole animation and rendering was done in Autodesk Softimage, while the clouds and rain where created by using its new ICE application (Interactive Creative Environment) for simulations and procedural effects.

The animation of the puddles which appear when the raindrops hit the ground was produced by dripping some ink on a wet paper towel. Underneath I placed a video camera and light so that I could film the whole effect. Eventually I edited the footage in After Effects until I had a nice and smooth ink dispersion which I brought as an animated texture into Autodesk Softimage.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Softimage
• ICE
• rain
• cloud
• effect
• ink
• drop
• Interactive
• Creative
• Environment
• paper
• fold
• texture
• animation
• 3d
• zbrush
• watercolor
• paint
• Hamburg
• origami
• pop
• up
• pop-up
• book
• motion
• graphics
• grafics

[homecares]

Can should make a tutorial for this!!

[UncleAbe]

@homecares: Yes, I probably should have done it during the creation. Unfortunately I don´t have time for it in the moment, sorry.

[UncleAbe]

Oh...and some good old art as well as ZBrush for Painting the Textures on the 3D models ;)

[UncleAbe]

Hey Thanks! I used Autodesk Softimage and After Effects in this case.

[FishbonesCafe]

Uncle Abe,

This is just gorgeous! I love it!

Everything from the book to model, very nice delivery.

And the particle effect at the end is really the icing on the cake!

If you don't mind me asking, did you put rig for the buildings for them to fold?

[AdvenaOljah]

lovely)



[Delibuzz]

This is beautiful.. a lot of work but worth it! Thanks for sharing and wish you every success.. you'll go far with that kind of creativity!

[mexiacorpinc]

it's just amazing!!!!!!

[Ginnaurin]

Wow! Ist just amazing! Where did you study? Do you make a Master?

[MrRaindrop16]

nice work.

[stormystudio69]

great work... very nice use of some hand made textures...I'm currently doing a pop up animation for a client purely in after effects this time...

Any reason your windmills are not spinning :-) ?

[arjenmiddelb]

I love it!