Modeling a stack of paper in Maya

[JP315]

Hey everyone. I was wondering if any knows of a tutorial on how to make a stack of paper?? Or if anyone knows how it is done.. The paper wont be animated.. It will be sitting on a desk.. Any suggestions or ideas would greatly appreciated. thanks!

JP

[testarossa]

Actually I'm looking for it too, did you have it?

[JP315]

No, nothing yet.. Let me know if you find anything.. Thanks

[SDA]

Hmmm... is this paper flat but in disordered place or curly paper on desk?
Give us more information, we might help you there.

P.S. Also does it needs to be like note paper, or sticky paper?

[JP315]

Flat stacked paper.. Not curled.. but wouldnt hurt to know how to make curled.. Note paper not sticky paper. thanks

[Moshie]

personally I don't use maya however I can tell you how I would do it in max and you can decode it :)

1. add couple of planes size of paper * don't remember the dimensions I think its 210 × 297 mm 0 segments of course.

2. add shell modifier out put amount of 0.01 < paper does have a thickness

3. material use a standard material (I think its Lambert in maya)

anyway make the defuse a very light grey some thing like:

Red = 213
Green = 213
Blue = 213

add a noise modifier to the defuse and make it very fine and make colour 1 a light grey
add this to the plane duplicate it on the Z about 20 times (leaving a small gap in-between each one) then in the front and left viewports random the planes so it doesn't look to uniform.

finally render in any way you want I used v-ray also I added some brown in there to mix it up :D

also you can add more segments and start messing with the corners and folding them put since this is an example I thought I would keep it simple. but you can use reference to fold the pages corners.

hope this helps.

Final:

[SDA]

Wow, nice :)

[Moshie]

Thanks :)