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Synthetic Stop-Motion in After Effects: Quick and Easy Techniques for Hand-made Animations

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Overview

I love stop-motion animation, or perhaps you call it stop-frame animation. I love it because it’s rich in character; because it looks hand-made; and because it drips with human imperfection. Most of the time we aim for perfect designs and animations, but this class is about reversing that idea to deliberately create a hand-made and imperfect look.
 
The class covers creating a stop-motion look inside After Effects – that means no cameras and no endless moving elements. Normal stop-motion takes a long time, but inside After Effects it’s quick and easy if you know how.
 
By the end of this class you’ll be able to create your own synthetic stop-motion films quickly and easily, with a range of different techniques ranging from dead-simple to highly detailed.

You may also enjoy my other animation classes:



Syllabus

  • Intro
  • What Is Stop Motion Animation?
  • Easy-Peasy Stop Motion
  • Add Imperfection With The Wiggler Tool
  • The Posterize Time Effect
  • The Paper Cut Out Look
  • The posterizeTime Expression
  • The Wiggle Expression
  • Controlled by An Expression Layer
  • Inconsistent Light
  • Precomps and Time Remapping
  • Per character Text Layers
  • Recap
  • Let’s Make a Film
  • The End
  • Bonus Lesson 1

Taught by

Rich Armstrong

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