#Istopmotion tutorial how to
#Istopmotion tutorial full

And even at the end, I did, you know, I sort of, I mean, I'll kind of go frame by frame and show you here's the first frame. And so it took me about 10 minutes to do this, and I was very happy with it. So you can very quickly preview what your animation is looking like. So my T3, I takes like, I don't know what the mega pixel is, but they're like 5k images, but it saves a low Rez version of that image that it can play back really quickly, literally in real time.

#Istopmotion tutorial full

It, um, it takes full Rez pictures with your camera. I had a ring light on it, and you can see the last frame looks a little bit blue. I pointed my camera straight down on the desk. And I don't want to really spend too much time in Dragonframe on this tutorial, but I used Dragonframe to shoot this piece of paper. So I'll show you guys, uh Dragonframe if you're unfamiliar with Dragonframe, it is one of the most fun programs I've ever used in my entire life, and you pretty much can hook up any DSLR camera to it, and it can control the camera and take a picture and it can do a lot of things. Now it's much, much easier to do if you use stop motion software. Um, you know, really what, what, what you do is you just start with a piece of paper that's folded flat, and you just frame by frame slowly, crumble it up and take a picture until it gets to a small little ball. Now I've done this before without using stop motion software, because it's really not that hard.

#Istopmotion tutorial how to

And so I thought what an interesting example might be is to show you how to do like a paper crumpling transition. So, um, you know, doing stop motion, there's a million ways you can do it. So today, uh, what I want to show you guys is some interesting ways you can incorporate stop motion into your after effects toolbox. Don't forget to sign up for a free student account so you can grab the project files from this lesson as well as assets from any other lesson on the site. This is going to be kind of a unique one, and I hope that it's going to be something you want to go out and try and eventually start building your own elements and playing around with it. And we're also going to talk about some compositing tricks that go along with it. I'm going to go over some tricks that will let you sort of set up a template that you can create really neat, stop motion elements with. What we're going to talk about is how you can integrate stop motion into your after effects work. If you haven't already check out the link in the resource tab where you can get more information about them. They were an amazing partner to work with throughout this whole process. I want to give a quick shout out to the department of motion design at the Ringling college of art and design for sponsoring this series. Gosh, Joey here at school of motion and welcome to the last day of 30 days of after effects.