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

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:

• 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