Adobe Flash or After Effects: How to make a piece of virtual paper blow away?

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Adobe Flash or After Effects: How to make a piece of virtual paper blow away?

About a month ago I saw a portfolio website in Flash that featured a stack of cards, and each time you clicked on it, they sort of blew all over the place, thus exposing the backs as videos and pictures.

Although I could easily take a bunch of 3D planes and tween them to turn and flip, these cards actually seemed to 'bend'.

How is this effect achieved?

Sorry I don't have the link to the example.

Thanks!

The site you're talking about probably used a 3D engine like papervision or away3d along with as3dmod, which is a cross-engine library used for modifying the structure of your 3d object. Here's an example.

Subb 2010-04-20 05:06:20

Very useful and I'll certainly look into that (and thanks for the quick response!), but I somehow feel like what I'm referring to didn't actually use code and was only a pre-defined animation movie clip brought into Flash. Perhaps I should have asked what programs would allow me to make a movieclip like this.

Allen G 2010-04-20 05:42:28

Actually, upon further investigation, perhaps you're right about as3dmod.Thanks again.

Allen G 2010-04-20 05:44:48