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1. Introduction: Hey, I'm torture on. I'm a stop motion animated with over 12 years experience in bringing things to life through animation. In this class, you're going to see how I make my paper assets that I use within my videos. Diesel animated out of paper with stop motion animation. Creating your own animated paper Assets like this is a really good way to add that bespoke text retired to your videos. It's really simple. I'm gonna talking through multiple ways of animating paper on. Then I'm going to go through the whole process of how to edit them on export them so that you can overlay them on your videos to the project. For this class is to simply make your own animated paper asset overlay on your videos. This could be anything it could be. A slide coming in like I'm doing It could be something else. You can use all of the different ideas and techniques I give you in whichever way you feel appropriate. If you'll stop for ideas or you don't know how to do something and you need extra ticks, just let me know in the project window, and I'll be happy to give you more advice. So grab yourself some nice colored paper on. Let's learn
2. Plain and Simple: Submersible. Before you start animating, you want to make sure that you are using a plane tabletop Mine come from Mike. Here. They're very cheap. You can use any color, but a plane color is going to be easier to edit out in photo shop. Because when you're animating your paper and you're starting to reveal the table beneath, we're gonna remove that infomercial on Make that transparent. So when you over ladies paper assets on top of your video, you'll see the video showing through. If you don't have a plane tabletop at home, just put down a large sheet of paper. It's a different color to the paper that you're animating with. I'm actually worked just as well, so let's move on to the paper animation techniques.
3. Cutting: Theo first technique we're going to be looking at for animating paper is cutting. So first of all, you need to palatial piece of paper down on a table on make sure that this is securely in position. I'm just using blue tack on. To begin with, you want to take 10 images off your solid piece of paper on, then grab yourself your pair of scissors on. Just go in there and start cutting away. They want to start off with really tiny little bits cut off so a really tiny nook out of one side on, then gradually increased their start cutting away from multiple sides of the paper on the amount you're cutting can get bigger and bigger with each frame. You don't want this to last too long with thinking maybe a second, potentially a little bit less, and it might get to the point where your paper completely fragments, as you can see here and so it can be challenging to line the paper back up. But if you haven't onion skinning feature like this when I'm using in dragon frame, you can see at the bottom of the frame where the mouse pointer is there's a red dot on. If you pull that away from the central circle, you're going to see the frame before on a ghost layer. So you're going to see it. Partial opacity on that's gonna help you line up your paper, Teoh. Get it back in the right spot. This is a really simple technique, and you can literally make the cutting as simple or complex as you want. Now let's move on to technique number two.
4. Rolling: Theo. Second technique I'm going to show you for animating paper is incredibly simple for this one. We're gonna be rolling. So again, make sure your paper is securely stuck down with blue tack or equivalent Andi. Take 10 images at the beginning, and then we're just going to start rolling from the bottom up. Now, make the first movement really small. Just kind of tuck the edge up off the bottom of the paper and then gradually role more and more like a say again increments, canete bigger per picture. The more you roll you may find the paper has a tendency to kind of unroll a little bit. See, Might want to reroll it a few times on. Even used blue tack to stick down the edge to keep in its position. I'm going to show you another version of rolling this time We're going to go from right to left, so again really small increments at the beginning. And if you need a little bit of help holding that edge down, just use blue tack on. That will keep the role in place as you're rolling, just like before the increments get bigger per picture on this really doesn't take longer till this is one of the quicker techniques on is really effective on with all of these paper techniques, you can play them forward or backwards so this can unreliable or it can roll up. Now let's move on to technique number three.
5. Scrunching: Theo. Third way, I'm going to show you how to animate paper is with scrunching. So why don't you have stuck down your piece of paper? You're gonna gradually tees up the corners off your piece of paper. And as you go, you're going to make this scrunched up more and more. My top tip would be to place one hand at the center of the paper to hold it in place. Make sure that is going to stay on the spot because as you're lifting up those corners, you're going to be dislodging. Your blue tack on the paper will have a tendency to move about. So make sure it's held down firm and unusual of a hand to push inwards and scrunch it on. Make the scrunching bigger and bigger as you go. Eventually, the paper is gonna become kind of ball in the middle. Now to make this ease out of the animation a little bit, my advice is to tear or cut away an amount of this paper so that little scrunched pile in the middle is getting smaller and smaller until eventually it disappears and you've got really nice He's in or he's out of your animation, depending which way you play it back. So now we're going to look at technique number four
6. Curtains: So our fourth technique for animating paper is another really simple idea. This is curtains. So this is your paper coming outwards from the centre or coming inwards to join in the middle, depending how you play. So after you've taken your 1st 10 still images on this one, you want to go in with your pair of scissors and cut a straight line right up the middle. Andi, don't do anything else yet. Take a picture. And then from this point, we're going to use the same technique as we did in the rolling paper. But you're going to roll the left hand piece out, left ways on the right hand piece out, right way. So both pieces are gonna move at the same time. On when you play this back, it will look like it's coming together like curtains. Or like the curtains are being opened on it. Really? As simple as that again, you can use blue tacked to hold down the paper. If you need to indefinitely make the increments, you're rolling the paper bigger as you go, because this will give a nice he's in or he's out of your animation. Now let's move on to technique number five
7. Swinging: technique. Number five is possibly the easiest one. I'm going to show you this is swinging the paper out or pivoting it from a point on for this, You again secure your paper on. Basically, all you want to do is choose a corner that you're going to swing your paper out from. I've chosen the top right hand corner on the first movement after your initial 10 pictures wants to be really, really tiny. And then with all these techniques, you want to get those movements a bigger per picture. So you getting that he's in or he's out on, then the animation is speeding up on that. You just want to make sure that that top corner or whichever corner you have chosen doesn't move. So keep your finger on it, even though this blue tack there on literally swing the paper from that point until the paper is no longer in the frame on. You can play this forwards or backwards to the paper. Will I ever swing down and fill the frame or the frame will be filled and then the paper will swing out. It's so simple he don't need scissors. You don't need to tear anything. This one is really, really easy. If you've not done animation before, I definitely suggest you trying. And this idea first and now. Technique number six.
8. Tearing It Up: So with technique number six were stepping things up. A gear. These effects are involving tearing or ripping, and it looks amazing if you do this well, now I'm gonna show you two different ways to different ideas, the first of which we are going to rip from the center. So secure your paper, take your 10 pictures and then what you want to do is make a little hole in the center. This is probably easiest with your scissors, because this will help you, Terry outwards in multiple directions. So when you've taken the next picture, you want to start tearing this paper. Andi, you may need a pin or the edge of your scissors just to get in there to help your fingers pull small increments to begin with on. Then gradually just start ripping outwards in bigger and bigger amounts. You can make this look as crazy as you want Andi. Eventually, it's going to become multiple pieces of torn paper, and you just want to make these continue to move outwards so that they all leave the edges of the frame. And this is a really nice effect, especially if you're using this as a overlay for yourself. Maybe your doing a talking head on. Did you want to slide to come in? This is a really cool way of doing it. Equally, if you've got a slide up in your video and you didn't want to reveal yourself or something behind it, it's really cool to see it appearing through this ripped hole in the center. Now we're gonna move on to seeing a different way of ripping as well. So for the second technique here, we are literally just gonna rip from the edges, take you 10 pictures, then choose an edge and make a little tear on. As before, keep tearing bigger and bigger amounts per picture. Andi introduced tears in on the other sides of the paper as well. Again, you can make. This is crazy as you want. You can tear this into as many pieces as you want. Bear in mind that the more pieces of paper that you have, the more things you have to keep an eye on and make sure are in the correct position because things tend to move a lot, papers quite light, and it's very easy for you to accidentally look something. If it's not stuck down, and then it may take you a while to line it back up. So less is more. I would say you can tear something into four or five pieces and it's still going to look amazing. And just as before, you're tearing these pieces and as they become separate, just move them away from each other out to the sides of the frame until they're completely out of frame and it's as easy as that. And now I've got one final technique to show you.
9. Folding: So my final technique is folding, and I would say this one sits on the easier side as well. Secure your paper, take you 10 pictures and you just want to start with a corner off the paper and just lightly TZ upwards. Start folding that edge up, take your picture on, then start making the increments bigger on. Once you have maybe done three or four pictures on that first corner, stop folding in another corner. Andi, eventually you're gonna fold. This is going to start getting a little bit challenging because the more folds you do, the harder it's going to be two fold, but push down on it, nice and firmly Try and get nice firm increases. That's going to give a really nice look. And just like we did in the scrunching technique, I suggest to cut away at the paper when it's in the middle. If you can't fold anymore, cut a piece off for terror. Piece off to make that folded amount in the middle slightly smaller so that it eases out on . It doesn't just disappear at a big lump. It starts getting a little bit smaller at the end or at the beginning to ease out of the animation. There are probably many more techniques for animating paper. If you think of a new one, I would love to see it. Make sure you share your paper asset animation in the project window. Feel free to use your own creative license on. Make something even more ambitious if you want. I love to be impressed.
10. Editing Your Images: Theo, you animated your paper asset. We want to edit all those images in photo shop, so bring your images in. I've got one with Thorne paper here just to show you how easy it is to edit the background , even when the edges aren't straight. So you want to create a layer from that background. You could do that by double clicking on the image, or you can right click and then layer from background. What I like to do is I make a new layer. Andi. I make that a really bright color, and I place that behind my original layer. So when I remove the background, I can see clearly if I have removed all of it and I'm going to know what my video's gonna looked like beneath it. So to edit out the background, I'm using the Magic one tool. I want to change the tolerance to 100 because there's some differences in the white color there. There's a bit of shadow and stuff, so increase the tolerance to 100 used magic. One tool. It will select everything and then just delete it by hitting backspace. You'll notice there's a small strip at the bottom where it hasn't selected. So I'm going to get rid of that as well. And then what I like to do is to just give a little bit of depth. When this is laid on top of the video is I'd like to add a drop shadow. So to do that, you're going to go to layer style on select drop shadow. Now, when I do a drop shadow, I like to change the setting. So I drop it down to a lower opacity offer and I go to 25%. We also change the direction of the shadow. I like to have a 141 degrees. This makes the Shadow appear downwards into the right slightly, and I really like that angle. And then I also changed the distance spread and size. I put distance 20 spread at 15 and size at 20 and I feel like this gives you a really nice , decent sized drop shadow. It feels natural, Andi, realistic on. Then I simply saved my images as a PNG. I keep the file structure, so I keep the number so that I don't lose the sequence that the images were in on. Then I often changed the front end to be something a little bit more sensible in this case . I'm just gonna call it Rip Andi, Save that. And in the next lesson, I'm gonna show you how to bring all of these images into after effects on export your animated paper asset to use in your videos.
11. After Effects: way. So now we're in after effects for the final part of the process, which is compositing together. Your slide paper assets. Now you wanna go to file import multiple files and you're gonna select a sequence of images that you've created for one of your slides. So you want to go in? Hopefully, you've organized these. Well, select the more open and they will come in as your PNG's now we want to do is you want to go to composition, make a new composition on that, make this an HD 16 by nine composition. Then you want to pull all of your images down onto the timeline on you want to make sure that these air the correct size for the composition, They're going to be bigger. They're still images. So you want to scale all of those together so that the final frame where your color fills the screen is completely filling the screen. There's no white border around the edge or anything like that. And then when you have all of your layers selected and you've got them down to the duration that you want, which is to frames because we're gonna play this back of 12 frames per second. Need to right click. Go to key frame assistance on sequence layers, and this will make sure that they all come out from each other. Play after each other one at a time, and you don't have to physically do that manually. It would do it for you and then with the final picture, just pull it out to the end of the time that I've decided to make each paper assets animation five seconds long and that's basically it. So the next important thing is exporting your paper asset. Now. To do this, you want to go up to composition on Add to render queue and you'll see in the box below. There are some drop down menus where you can change output settings. The important thing here is you want to go to the output module where it says lossless, and you want to change the video output to RGB plus Alfa, And this will mean that when your file exports, it preserves at that transparency layer. So if you bring this in and you put it on a video layer above something else that you filmed where there was transparency, you will see the video below through, and that is what we want because this is an overlay. Assets of the idea is that this will be placed on top of existing video. We're happy that you fulfilled everything that I've said. You can go in there and change the output to a name of a choice and the destination off where you want that finished export to go on the destination and then hit. Render on. It's as easy as that. And in the next lesson, I'm gonna show you just how easy it is to bring this finished paper assets into an editing work space and place it on top of some existing video.
12. Using Your Assets: Now that you have your paper assets made, you want to be using these in your own videos and projects. So I'm starting a new sequence in Premiere using your assets, and I'm gonna show you how you pull those paper assets in. So choose one that you've made. Andi, just go to Media browser, Right? Click on it on import. That's the best way to bring files into premiere it. Make sure that they get read correctly by the system. Andi. Then also bring in a piece of video I've bought in a little bit the making off from this exact class on prop your video down on the timeline. You just drag and drop, and then you just want to use the video track above to place your paper asset, and I'm going to show you how easy this is. You've placed it there and look straight away. The transparency has been preserved from after effects on that paper. Asset is playing on top of your video. Now you can make adjustments if you don't quite like the speed or the direction that it's playing, you can quite easily right Flick Andi go to speed slash duration and just take the reverse speed box. Andi, it will play the other way around so you can choose to make your slide come in or come out on. Perhaps it's moving a little bit slower than you would like, so you can also go into speed duration and maybe bumping up to 125%. So you really have full control here and you can make your paper assets. But whatever video needs, you have quite easily.
13. Final Thoughts: Thank you so much for taking my class today. Don't forget to post your animated paper asset in the project window. I can't wait to see what you've come up with on if you like this class and found it helpful and maybe learn something. Don't forget to leave a positive review as well, because it helps other students know that there's quality to be gained from what I have to teach. I also have a YouTube channel. You can find that youtube dot com slash animate auto on on there. I do other kind of tutorial videos behind the scenes of stop motion animation. So if you like, why do you confined extra content over there as well? And don't forget to follow my skill share page because I'm gonna be trying to upload at least two classes per month and you'll be the first to know about them. If you're following me, I hope we have a fantastic day and I'll catch you again in the next class