Create A Simple Stop Motion Style For Your Video Clips

Create A Simple Stop Motion Style For Your Video Clips

on May 31st 2012 with 18 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: Just After Effects... enjoy
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Run Time: 12 min

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

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In today’s tutorial we’ll take a look at how to use a few built-in AE plug-ins to give your video a Stop Motion looking style. We’ll add an edge around the video and change the frame rate to make our wiggling Pre-comp look like photos appearing one after the other as if we were going through a flip book.

Tutorial

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File size: 195.5 MB

Adam Everett Miller is everettoptions on Videohive
 
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  • Oren

    Great Tip!
    Thx Adam

  • http://www.skaremedia.com Chris

    Oh cool, I was just about to do something similar with my upcoming holiday to Fiji!

  • Spencer T

    Wow, I literally just finished a whole music video with this effect throughout! Almost exactly the same end result! But I went with a TOTALLY different approach… Much more expressions. (yours is more simple)

    - Spencer

  • http://www.specterart.net maria

    Simple and looks amazing, thanks!

  • http://qzyxya.wordpress.com elliot

    Very nice effect and really simple. thx

  • oscand

    Very Nice tut thanks,

    But it’s better to use CC Time Blend instead of CC Time Blend FX in this case.

    Another approach is to use expression in order
    1- to grab random image from the footage
    2- avoid precomposing tiwce cause of wiggle

    Random images

    Apply Time Remap to the footage

    nbIm=5; //length of each cut (images)
    duration = nbIm*thisComp.frameDuration; //length of each cut (seconds)
    dureeComp=thisComp.duration;
    seed = Math.floor(time/duration);
    seedRandom(seed,true);
    random(dureeComp);

    Random position

    nbIm=5; //length of each cut (images)
    duration = nbIm*thisComp.frameDuration; //length of each cut (seconds)
    dureeComp=thisComp.duration;
    seed = Math.floor(time/duration);
    seedRandom(seed,true);
    random([620,340],[660,380]);

    Random rotation

    nbIm=5; //length of each cut (images)
    duration = nbIm*thisComp.frameDuration; //length of each cut (seconds)
    dureeComp=thisComp.duration;
    seed = Math.floor(time/duration);
    seedRandom(seed,true);
    random(-6,6);

    Hop it helps

  • http://vimeo.com/ragman Johny

    Hey thanks for the AWESOME tutorial. Really simple, yet looks awesome.

    I followed along and made this.

    https://vimeo.com/43414768

    • mimi

      thanks for posting your results — also fun

  • http://www.zebravideo.ca videographer toronto

    even i dont like stopmotion stile in video, i have to admit sometimes it is the only way to go. Awesome tut

  • Audrey

    Is the link broken? Chrome can’t download it for some reason.

  • Jezz

    I am using cs6, here the echo and time blend fx both are not creating those copies of the image.. :|

    have done everything same but nothing happening.. Help.. :((

    • http://www.vimeo.com/everettoptions Adam Everett Miller
      Author

      Hmm… I haven’t done it on CS6, so I”m not sure if they’ve changed something so it generates a different result. Make sure you have the echo set to the right mode where it will leave a trail behind the top image instead of in front…

      • Jezz

        That’s what is not happening.. I am not getting the trail in both echo and time blend.. :(
        Just tried in cs4 as well same prob.. followed every step of the tut but no result..

      • http://www.vimeo.com/everettoptions Adam Everett Miller
        Author

        if you want to collect files and send me your project file I can take a look. ae@tutsplus.com

      • Jezz

        I hae mailed you the proj file.. :) kindly let me know the issue with it

        Many Thanks

  • Gabriel

    Adam, beautiful tut! I’m having the same problem as Jezz, using CS4, i can’t get the copies of the “photos”.
    DId you find out the solution? Thank you!

    • http://www.vimeo.com/everettoptions Adam Everett Miller
      Author

      He sent me the project file a while back and I don’t remember if we figured out the problem… hmm. That doesn’t do you any good. You could send your project file to me to take a look at ae@tutsplus.com

  • mimi

    thanks for posting this tutorial — fun!