So I'll show you guys, uh Dragonframe if you're unfamiliar with Dragonframe, it is one of the most fun programs I've ever used in my entire life, and you pretty much can hook up any DSLR camera to it, and it can control the camera and take a picture and it can do a lot of things. Now it's much, much easier to do if you use stop motion software. Um, you know, really what, what, what you do is you just start with a piece of paper that's folded flat, and you just frame by frame slowly, crumble it up and take a picture until it gets to a small little ball. Now I've done this before without using stop motion software, because it's really not that hard.

And so I thought what an interesting example might be is to show you how to do like a paper crumpling transition. So, um, you know, doing stop motion, there's a million ways you can do it. So today, uh, what I want to show you guys is some interesting ways you can incorporate stop motion into your after effects toolbox. Don't forget to sign up for a free student account so you can grab the project files from this lesson as well as assets from any other lesson on the site. This is going to be kind of a unique one, and I hope that it's going to be something you want to go out and try and eventually start building your own elements and playing around with it. And we're also going to talk about some compositing tricks that go along with it. I'm going to go over some tricks that will let you sort of set up a template that you can create really neat, stop motion elements with. What we're going to talk about is how you can integrate stop motion into your after effects work. If you haven't already check out the link in the resource tab where you can get more information about them. They were an amazing partner to work with throughout this whole process. I want to give a quick shout out to the department of motion design at the Ringling college of art and design for sponsoring this series. Gosh, Joey here at school of motion and welcome to the last day of 30 days of after effects.

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