2015
Lynda
Owen Lowery
1:37
English

Want to mimic the handmade paper cutout and stop-motion style of Monty Python or early South Park in your motion graphics? This course shows how to replicate this DIY aesthetic in After Effects, using design and animation techniques that result in a dirty, textured, and imperfect style that is well suited for music videos and show openers, like the one featured in this course for the band Oh No, Robots!
Mograph artist Owen Lowery shows how to build the text and image elements, add texture, and then animate the graphics for a stop-motion look. The lessons demonstrate how versatile Adobe After Effects' tools can be when you stretch them beyond their traditional uses and employ some creative problem solving. Members are encouraged to experiment and adapt the techniques shown to other styles and projects.

Introduction
Welcome
What you should know and the exercise files
1. The Stop-Motion/Handmade Look
Style limitations: Bad = good
2. Composition Settings and Frame Rates
Composition settings
3. Designing Cutout and Paper-Made Shapes
Designing cutout shapes with the Pen tool
Grouping shape layer content and saving shapes to compositions
4. Paper Texture
Texture challenge: Find and photograph your own textures!
Adding texture to shapes with track mattes and blending modes
Quick tip: Using CC RepeTile effect to extend a texture edge
5. Cutout Type
Customizing text into shapes
6. Depth, Perspective, and Shadow
Drop shadow workarounds for textured layers
Cutting a hole into a layer
7. Choppy Stop-Motion Animation
Adding random motion with Wiggler window
Jerky motion with Motion Sketch
Adding random motion wiggle expression
Using expression controllers to keyframe expression values
Shaking the scene with Wigglerama behavior
Looping toggle hold animation
Combining techniques
Conclusion
Review and next steps

Download File Size:305.32 MB

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