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The flying sheets of paper on the beach look pretty. In a half-hour tutorial, Kevin Harper shows how he created them with the mParticle feature in 3ds Max 2014. He achieved the result using particle skinning and particle glue, among other functions. He explains his approach step by step in the video.
So let sheets of paper fly around dynamically:
Here you can find Kevin Harper’s entire YouTube channel.