This free Maya video tutorial will explain how to animate a 3d book or diary pages in Maya.
Learn here about animation techniques and skill using book pages in Maya. The animation is very easy for the learners if they are familiar to key frames application. The key frames setting causes for animation. As for concerned this tutorial, you must have already book modeling for animation, otherwise first create the book modeling and then use for animation.
This site is teaching you about every kind of concept about animation, modeling, rendering and texturing. You will find all kind of stuff here with detail. The book can be designed with the NURBS primitives and choosing planes. Adjust the size and modify the shape for bringing the actual shape. Now turn the main menu as animation and go to skeleton to create joints for the model. Now select the plane and with shift select joints and go to bind option to bind them mutually. To make the lengthy animation, increase the number of frames up to 100 in range slider box. Next you can use transforming tool to move or turn the pages, otherwise go to channel box and here change the values for turning the page of book with respect to their co-ordinates. Assign key frames there and then play the animation. You will see the page turning like a real page.The video is showing same process visually for better understanding.
