Create a short stop-motion animation with After Effects, using the techniques and methods shown in the class. If you’re stuck with what to animate, tell a short story with 1 or 2 animal characters, or introduce yourself and what you like.

For extra brownie-points, add some sound and music to your animation.

Below are some awesome stop-motion people to reference and follow. I’m not sure how many of them would be pleased with me showing you a quick and easy way of doing stop-motion in After Effects :)

Becca Clayson
Kirsten Lepore
Evan Hilton
Pes
Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie
Kobu and The Two Strings
Fantastic Mr fox
Tim Burton’s Corpses Bride.
Nick Park’s Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the sheep.
Monty Python’s Flying Circus Intro (parts of it)
And more

If you need a code editor for your expressions use one of the following:

Here are some explainer articles and in-depth posts about some of the topics we cover during the class.

There's also an attachment containing each of the lesson's starting points if you'd like to start where each lesson starts.

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