A Handy Hassle-Free Stop Motion Look
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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By Juan Duque
I'm Animation Director for Mompozt Animation Studios Bogotá. I graduated from the Art Institute of FortLauderdale with a Bachelor of Science in Media Arts and Animation degree in December 2000.
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thanks a lot!
Please Fix audio it is out of sync from about 20 minutes!
interesting effect !
animation done in C4D or 3DS MAX ?
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 !
….ASAP ???!!!! coz ?’?!! have you to do a stop motion to a Lama ? or a Camel ?
Nice going there, zealot.
It’s 3dsmax and I’m working on fixing the audio. Thank you for your comments.
Now teach me how to do the opposite :D
Man!! Why didn´t you begin from scratch, it´s easier to understand the tuto.
It would´ve been better than going backwards.
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
well done! I first used 3Ds Max and still haven’t done much with Cinema 4D.. very nice!
Very well done ;)
Audio is fixed!
seems all the “issues” you encounter with raw stop motion you have just re-created.
I’ll stick to the hands-on approach
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.
You made it very well, thanks guy !