animating desk diary
 

Hello, please can anyone give some hint how to aproach animating a calendar ? I need to animate it like it was wind which blows the pages (months) around the axis . I tried wind without any success..Also tried animate some bump also without any result .. than I tried displacement when I found flag tutorial but the problem is I do not need some complex displacement but just some bending while I can add the rotation afterwards.. I hope you have understood me..I meant simple desk diary .. Thanx a lot for any help..

I have done single page turns but now that I think about it, this could probably work for lots of pages as well.

I made a model of a book open in the middle. Then I made (on a new layer) a single page sticking straight up. Then I made 2 morph maps - 1 of the page turned to the left and the other turned to the right. In layout you just add morph mixer and use the 2 sliders to make the pages turn. For lots of pages you could just clone your page and shift the keyframes a little for some offset.

I'd probably approach this by making each 'page' a sub-divided/patched plane, then apply bones to it that allow you to move it.

There used to be a tutorial kicking about on the 'net on how to accomplish this, but I can't remember for the life of me where it is... (anyone???)

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I found out that the most simple way to do that is to use curveConform tool under the add displacement tab..The problem is that I cant force it to work.. I tried to create a curve right in the object , also tried to import as a separate object but nothing worked..I had never before tried to play with displacements so I might be doing something basic wrong, but I dont know what...Can anyone help ?