Mixing Stop Motion and 2D Animation in After Effects
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- How do you mix stop motion and 2D animation? In this tutorial, I'll be breaking down my process of making this watermelon stop motion 2D animation in After Effects.
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Broooo WHERE HAS SEQUENCE LAYERS BEEN MY ENTIRE LIFE!!!??? HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THAT, oh my gosh. Life is completely altered now. Thanks for the tut! Primal screams are normal trust me
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I've done a lot of compositing stop motion in after effects- I HIGHLY recommend the paint bucket effect. Import your frames as an image sequence, put the paint bucket effect on it. Move the fill point to a spot on the background where the subject doesn't touch (if your moving objects move around a lot you might have to animate the position of the selector). Set the stroke to "spread", enable invert fill, and set the blending mode to "stencil alpha". It cuts out objects beautifully. I used it tons when doing stop motion with table salt, and it was robust enough to composite individual grains with no background coming through
Excellent Advise. Thanks
This channel is probably the biggest reason I want to keep learning After Effects and motion graphics
Excellent tut. There's a lot of basic stuff I did not know in addition to the actual stop motion tut. Thank you Ben.
Thanks for watching! I'm glad it was useful :D
Ben! You said you’d be scaling down your CZcams output and we cried ourselves to sleep, then BLAM! You drop more gold on YT.
Sooo much goodness here - thank yooou!
ben you're the best! i hope you get 3 billion subscribers
Thanks so much Alberto! :D We're 0.00013% there!
Although it might not fit this specific aesthetic I've discovered some awesome methods recently to smooth out stop motion in AE
Time-warp - can be used to convert low fps animation to a higher, smoother frame rate by guessing the frames in between frames. It can create some strange artifacting but this can usually be fixed with the second effect I'll mention. It's a bit finicky but nothing a little pre-comping can't fix.
Force motion blur - Adds point specific motion blur to your animation just by analyzing the footage. So if a dude lifts his hand- AE wil magically be able to say - ok, let's blur his hand here. It's kind of amazing how much motion blur can add to certain pieces but obviously the current melon boy deservers every frame as crisp as possible :3
You're trully an artist, both digital and traditional one
6:10 or 13:10 RULE FOR ROTOSCOPING/ANIMATION. DO FIRST AND LAST FRAMES, THEN MIDFRAME. Proceed as such to make all frames. Will make your life 90% easier and many frames will need no correction. Auto tweening will be precise enough.
Extremely helpful. Thank you. This is some of the slickest artwork and tuts on CZcams. I had to crash course learn some thing in AE for a large scale public art project, with almost no experience, and I’m kind of hooked. Excited to explore more and very appreciative of creators like you.
its the small rticks and tips that make the difference!!! Love it!
Awesome tutorial! Your videos really inspire me to continue creating animations. Thank you!
This is my favorite video, thank you so much, I always use this in my animations❤❤ greetings from México saluditos :3
Nice tut bro
Wow.I always wanted to learn how make those radiant or concentric lines. Reminds me of pimp my ride.
I can't believe how cute it looks with its little boots!
I was not ready for the arts and crafts I’m this video 😂👍🏻
BRILLIANT as always. Thanks for the inspiration!
Great tip with starting the animation at one second, I always get myself into a big mess doing that.
thanks bro very usefull tutorial
Such a gem once again! Have you always been able to produce this much output?
Tutorial God.
Thank you so much for all of your amazing videos!! I can't say that enough. Awesome video!
Your content and your energy is incredibly inspiring. It has given me a new art form to practice and pursue professionally during quarantine. Thank you for your insights and positivity!!🙏🏻
Really cool tip about using blur with levels to create a softer (but crisp) shape.
also shifting the work for those intro keyframe is simple but effective!
thank you for the tutorial
Good. Well done 👍
Thank you!
Yep!
6:12 this. This is the exact moment I decided to like the video. Thank you.
marriott-sensei
thanke so much bro
You know when I search about animation techniques, your name always pop up first in my mind
😵amazing!!!
great job! allways happy to see more of your great videos ;)
I love you ben
awesome Ben, wish you agood day
This makes me want to learn animation so bad, such a cool waternelon!
It’s hard af
@@roycastanon5754 it's not impossible, though
I was so amazed by this animation and then I learned that all that it takes I already know how to do. This inspired me so much. Thank you!
at the joke at 10:43 i paused the video just to cackle, cause i knew i was gonna miss valuable content if i didn't, but your sense of humor is too much of a delight not to savor. yayyyyyyy go ben go
Love u man!
Thanks Ben!
Great work thank you!!!!
I think you'd get a less shaky turn of the melon if you mounted it on the left side so you could rotate it (with thick wire or stick). There'd be no removing of shadows, just the keying out of the background and the mount.
...cool video keep up the great content
The way your editing and filming brain works is so interesting, taking notes for my projects haha
You got my heart with that pun.
omg finally! ive seen u hype this up on Instagram and it is sooo worth it! great work
Such an amazing tutorial and video, loved it!
Thank you so much!
Im new and this is sooo helpful
You can model and texture the melon in blender with a clay shader from Southern Shotty. Well atleast that's definitely what imma do
As always, very nice job!!!
Bravo!
I'm loving the variety of your content! Thank you so much!
Very nice! Thank yooou!
amazing
This tutorial is superb. Thanks Ben,
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Love it already!
Nice n' creative. I love it!
Great channel! So glad The Algorithm brought me here.
Amazing!!!!!!!
6:12 why I love your content! :D
Fantastic!
You're fantastic!
Love your tutorials bro
it's perfectly
i love it
thumbs up mate, you are brilliant
You’re amazing. Thank you
Nice tutorial
This is so helpful!
Glad you found it useful!
yaay amazing video as always.
Thank youuu!
How is this so inspiring
Been checking your website everyday since the 1st April for the course lol
Thank you so much! Shouldn't be too long now :)
@@BenMarriott Awesome :) thanks Ben!
to cut out the melon you could have used photoshops new(ish) Select Subject. its so much more accurate than any of their prior auto select stuff
thank you for posterize time
yeah
Very Creative! Cheers, Ben .. Learned so much from you! I'm actually OK on After Effects now (still not amazing!) But that's a lot to do with watching your videos!
I'd also like to see how you approach cool transitions for stuff like video essays and things like that... If I could suggest that, that'd be cool!
Goooood
We've been making melonade all week :)
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This is so cool!! I love it :D
I like the version with the "missing" frames better. Has a better sense of gravity.
This is why I subbed.
i read stop mixing motion and 2d animation and i was like "wah?" and clicked in to find out more. 😂
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this reminds me of jack stauber's style a bit and i love it
Can you did a video on that microscope composition you did? I'm trying to do a transition with a camera that goes from seeing the composition from the front to seeing it on top of the item.
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what a ledge
Can you explain briefly the process at 13:04? I’m a newby and am unfamiliar with what is happening at that point inside after effects. Thank you Ben!!
Can you make a tutorial on you video intro. by the way you are doing great job
So easy
Tutorial unclear, accidentally made Shaun The Sheep Movie 2
Farmageddon a goddam classic
I recently make the same method for an animation for somebody else Ben. :)
Awesome! But I'm just wondering if you couldn't use the rotobrush 2 to mask the watermelon in the first place?
So cute :3
Thanks my friend!
Классно. Любо дорого посмотреть.
this watermellon sculpture is for sale? 😍😍
How did you import the frames into after effects
Can't we apply stroke on that cut out melon?
And then fill it.
So i can do this with photos of a guitar body just spinning in place?
What FPS should I animate in ae
Watermelon Skins!