Clouds are as real as the money system…you can see it, it comes from thin air and its protection is an illusion
Its best feature is you can hide in it.


Now about that money I owe you……

The skies mostly look fantastic. Then again for skies and sunsets I've either used free stock footage from Artbeats or Daze3D, also free.

There's some out of place ghosts / shadows from the pages going on at the left of frame. The pages need something more going for them, like curling. Disney and others used to nail turning pages perfectly, well before the computer age. Never figured out how they did it exactly.
What I 'see' is these lovely organic clouds cut into by the harsh edges of the pages that look way too 'digital' to sit well with the rest of the elements.

Bob.

Bob I had the shadow on for the book and as you said it would work better off, for this veg it would be more like a hard photo album
So you would pre set up your pages in a graphics editor with two or three photos on a page with a thin cameo round each photo as if in an standard style album then the hard stiff pages would be appropriate, getting that Disney soft page curl ….i have thought about it and even on a green screen shoot then in post mapping the pages with a displacement would be a task.

I will work on it between renders add a spot light on each page

Rory

"So you would pre set up your pages in a graphics editor with two or three photos............."

I don't know what I'd do. I've started many projects like this in Vegas and AE. Mastering the tools I've learned is one thing. Making composites that look appealing is devilshly difficult. I can easily see what's wrong with my work, knowing how to make the concept work is another matter entirely.

I've got one such thing on the books right now. It sounds simple, text orbiting the earth. Downloaded a sample AE project, that seemed really simple but it just doesn't look quite right. Going from near enough to perfect is proving to be quite a challenge.

Bob.

I'd just do it in a 3D app, much easier than trying to make it work in 2D compositors.

shoot, I think bluff can even do that, can't remember though.

Dave

Sssshh Dave we are trying to manipulate the Sony team into giving us more tools and adding alpha channel on page peel transition

Disney and others used to nail turning pages perfectly, well before the computer age. Never figured out how they did it exactly.

Bob, I have no idea how Disney did their nice turning pages but I once had a project where I needed to turn two pages in a high school year book to reveal a custom page I had made. To do this I used two pieces of very thin transparent fishing line inserted between the preceeding pages, extending well beyond the top and bottom of the book, and pulled all the way back into the spine. While filming I pulled the pages back one at a time with the lines. I was really surprised how well it turned out. But this was a DV project and the line was completely invisible. Probablly wouldn't be the case with HD.

jerry

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sorry, that wasn't clear, I was talking to bob - not to you xfx, you did a fine job of manipulting the tools within Vegas.

Dave