Animated Flipbook in Camtasia | Minicourse
Learn to create an animated flipbook in Camtasia from scratch. A reusable library asset that shows animated pages flipping from left to right, with light beam or glossy pages flying across the page, with drop shadow, the pages get darker as they move away from the camera - very realistic. All the good stuff!
This is a long-ish Camtasia minicourse but I think you will learn a great deal from it about animation, planning, keyframes, light effects, motion blur, animation rotation point, creating reusable and customizable assets with quick properties. Everything is explained in detail.
If you don't have the patience to create the asset yourself, you can buy it already made for Camtasia 2022, 2023 or later at this link: https://cotovan.com/flipbook
Chapters:
00:00 Intro and example
00:43 Why it works in 2022+
03:14 Planning
03:45 Warning about image geometry
05:44 Start the build
05:54 Project size check
07:03 Creating the flip page action
08:05 Change the center of rotation
09:09 Rotating around axis
11:09 Change animation easing
11:48 How long before changing pages?
12:06 Opacity change half-way
13:02 Add motion blur
13:16 Darken page when moving
15:49 Add light streak or reflection
17:13 Move the light beam
19:09 Add motion blur to beam of light
20:16 Keep the page and mask identical
20:47 Another version with spotlight
22:01 Create the left side page flip
23:42 Animating the left page
27:00 Animate left side light beam
28:52 Add left light mask
30:23 Motion blur on pages
31:22 Creating continuity in flip animation
33:40 Creating reusable segments
34:21 Resize group to canvas bug
38:45 Separate left and right pages
41:48 Creating more pages
41:59 Use markers as animation helpers
44:07 Animating an overlapping page
45:20 Adding the third page in sequence
48:28 Add another set of pages
51:44 Finishing up
53:15 Add environment assets
54:12 Add drop shadow
55:23 Add a vignette effect
56:07 Add a zoom in effect
59:10 Closing remarks
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