A Handy Hassle-Free Stop Motion Look

A Handy Hassle-Free Stop Motion Look

on Sep 15th 2010 with 17 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: After Effects and 3ds Max (for the animation)
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Run Time: 33:18 min
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This tutorial will show you how to fake the look of a low budget or homemade stop motion animation using 3dsmax and after effects. No plug-ins are needed.

You can find a real world example of this such effect here or here.

We will simulate the things that give a away an old fashioned stop motion animation which are:

  • Poor planning (use of lienar curves)
  • Variable frame rate (Choppy, not smooth motion)
  • Light and camera variations due to budging or moving of the camera inadvertently or without the use of rails.

Tutorial

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File size 298MB

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  • http://www.youtube.com/ianhpiratao IANH – BR

    thanks a lot!

  • Nils Westhoff

    Please Fix audio it is out of sync from about 20 minutes!

  • ExtremRaym

    interesting effect !

  • SHUVRA

    animation done in C4D or 3DS MAX ?

  • http://www.graphicna.com Basel Mousa

    same Q : animation done in C4D or 3DS MAX ?
    plz tell us ASAP coz I got the slowest internet connection ever coz i m from Yemen !

    • forcy

      ….ASAP ???!!!! coz ?’?!! have you to do a stop motion to a Lama ? or a Camel ?

      • wtf

        Nice going there, zealot.

  • http://www.vimeo.com/juanimator3d Juan Duque

    It’s 3dsmax and I’m working on fixing the audio. Thank you for your comments.

  • Tam Duong

    Now teach me how to do the opposite :D

  • William

    Man!! Why didn´t you begin from scratch, it´s easier to understand the tuto.
    It would´ve been better than going backwards.

  • http://www.graphicna.com Basel Mousa

    so this tut is not using C4D but 3Ds Max ?
    i m disappointed
    is there anyway to make a similar thing for C4D ? somehting similar to that (clay) look
    i wish u can deliever this to the CG.TutsPlus or maybe manage it here

    thx again

  • http://www.e11world.com e11world

    well done! I first used 3Ds Max and still haven’t done much with Cinema 4D.. very nice!

  • http://www.brainz.co Alejandro González

    Very well done ;)

  • http://juanimator.com Juan Duque

    Audio is fixed!

  • trapt

    seems all the “issues” you encounter with raw stop motion you have just re-created.

    I’ll stick to the hands-on approach

  • vijay

    hey can u pls give a detail description about the material texturing u did for that clay thing, I m not much into 3ds max, but seeing this i thought of making something similar.

  • http://gilleshoarau.com Unicolored

    You made it very well, thanks guy !