Book Rig

June 08, 2012
5,507 Downloads
19 Likes
Blender 2.6x
Render: Blender Internal
Creator: Husam
License: CC-BY

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Description:

This is a rig I've been working on lately. It's largely based on this rig by John David Marte: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PZOu2477PWs The rig is far from perfect. Still I'm pretty happy with what I've achieved so far and decided to share it with you guys. Feedback is welcome here: http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?257209-Book-Rig

Note: This rig is heavily dependent on drivers and for them to work you must enable Auto Run Python Scripts. To do this go to File>User Preferences and enable the tickbox in the File tab. Then you can reload the file and run the script in the text window. Please be aware that this is a security setting and should be disabled if you don't need it. Otherwise you run the risk of allowing malicious code to be run on your machine. DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK!

book rig page flip

Comments:

illmortem

Amazing... I've been waiting for something exactly like this to come along! Great work!!

Edited June 09, 2012
chaad

Great work !

Edited June 09, 2012
masluch

What about textures? Is it possible to texture the flipping pages? If not it's probably not very useful for comercial work.

Edited June 12, 2012
seanmavley

You can texture the individual pages. @masluch

Edited October 09, 2015
PeeDee76

excellent share thanks

Edited June 13, 2012
Acki Loon

awsome! thanks for the great work!

Edited June 15, 2012
Jonnipix

Fantastic!!!

Edited June 15, 2012
kevin_rocker_lake

Bloody cool!

Edited June 20, 2012
InsaneXade

sweet! I could really use this :D thanks

Edited July 08, 2012
pequeno3d

Wow, incredible rig!

Congratulations dude. ;)

Edited July 18, 2012
WIRLOW

Amazing!!

Congratulations.

PDTA: O_o o_O

Edited November 16, 2012
karo861

Amazing!! I'm astonished by the quality and detail... Thank you very much, and congrats :)

Edited November 20, 2012
Husam

Hey guys. Thanks for the encouraging comments.

Just in case it isn't clear the video I posted is of the original Maya rig by John David Marte. I just realized some people might get confused thinking the video is a demo of my rig, which is a mere imitation and of a far inferior quality compared to the original.

Written November 26, 2012
sid_ninja

Far from perfect? PWHAA

Edited June 15, 2013
candolastir

how do i use it

Edited March 26, 2014
candolastir

please help

Edited March 26, 2014
candolastir

i did everything but when i change the things nothing happens

Written March 26, 2014
Husam

Hi,

For those folks who are having problems with the rig please read the note in the description.

Cheers

Written March 27, 2014
ugauga

great it's awesome model thanks..

Edited May 27, 2014
abascgi

thats the best... yes...

Written April 18, 2015
Thomandy

Great job! Only problem I have is that Im not able to scale the book down.. At the moment its larger than my character.. :)

Edited May 08, 2015
veggiet

This is awesome, I am noticing some issue with pages sticking at random angles.

Edited August 25, 2015
GavinZac

Everything is working great for me. Unfortunately I haven't yet figured out how to use keyframes to animate it through the custom properties.

Edited December 02, 2015
Burro

awesom...

Edited March 03, 2016
CosmicPigeon

Not working for me HELP

Written August 21, 2016
czeky

Look for an alert in the middle screen, in the top menu, enable and it is working.

Edited April 21, 2017
DoodleNotes

GREAT WORK! Thanks for sharing! :D

Edited February 04, 2018
pgsibilo

thank you so much

Edited February 08, 2018
aajjss

Thank you for this. I used this as the starting point for the smaller book in this video. You have been credited as per CC-BY licence.

http://filmular.ie/portfolio/bloom-and-blossom

Edited March 29, 2018
Husam

You are welcome. Glad you found it useful. I'm a bit surprised it still works after all this time with newer versions of Blender. I think a face-lift is in order. Might get around to doing it someday when I have the time.

Nice animation BTW :)

Written April 02, 2018
cet77

Hi, I've been looking into your book-rig. :) It's really nice. There is only one tiiiiiny little thing tho.. =p Is there any possibility you could get the script/rig working with blender 2.8? I know it's still in alpha, but I really, really would like to use it in an animation I'm working on. :)

Edited August 13, 2018
Husam

I've really been meaning to do just that for quite a while now but unfortunately I've never had the time to get around to doing it. Plus I'm rusty as I haven't touched blender in a while and I don't know how much the python API has changed. Can't promise that I'll be able to upgrade it anytime soon but you never know. If you need something urgently you can try some of the other rigs out there or try and approach a professional rigger to recreate/polish/upgrade this one. I provided links to the original Maya tutorial so it shouldn't be too hard for someone who knows what they're doing to do a better job than I did ;)

http://www.redesigndavid.com/single/2010/9/23/rigging-a-book-part-1

http://www.redesigndavid.com/single/2010/10/1/rigging-a-book-part-2

Written August 19, 2018
antonclaten

pelit woyyy

Written October 26, 2018
trixiemay

Amazing work! Save a ton of rigging time. Thanks for sharing.

Written January 16, 2019
zwrodgers

Hi, I'm trying to texture pages on your book rig. And I've noticed that your book rig "stretches" pages non-uniformly when they turn. This stretches the texture that's applied to the page. How would you get around this?

Written February 22, 2019