CLAYMATION EFFECT
For Adobe After Effects
What is it?
The Claymation Effect is a one-of-a-kind tool for turning ordinary footage into a stop-motion clay animation in Adobe After Effects. What would normally take weeks to create can now be made in minutes, simply by dropping in your video footage, photo, cartoon, graphics, or logo. Convenient controls allow you to customize the colors, detail level, frame rate, and more.
Whether it's for a music video, logo animation, title graphics, or animated short film... the Claymation Effect is fun, realistic, and easy to use!
Turn your footage into a
STOP-MOTION CLAY ANIMATION!
Even After Effects beginners will have no problem creating a claymation cartoon from footage by following this tutorial.
Need to Know
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This template is compatible with Adobe After Effects, versions 17 (2020) and all later versions. Older releases of the template are available upon request (compatible with After Effects CS5 and later). The template works on both PCs and Macs – all you need is After Effects. No plugins required.
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Last Update: 07/20/2024. The video tutorial was made prior to the update and some elements may look or work a little differently. Be sure to read the updated written instructions in the template.
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Two project file includes comps for both HD (1920x1080) and 4K (3840x2160). The effects also work great on photos, text, and graphics with transparent backgrounds.
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The claymation effect comps in this template are 10 frames per second, giving them the choppy stop-motion look seen in the demo video. You can change the frame rate in the "Composition Settings" panel, or if you like the look of a reduced frame rate, but need to export at a higher rate like 29.97fps or 25fps, create a new comp with the higher frame rate, and place the claymation effect comp into the new comp.
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You can use the colors from your footage, or assign unique colors to each "clay layer".
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Footage and music in demo video not included.
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This template has been "universalized", so it will work in After Effects running in any language.
The Claymation Effect template is not a plugin, so there is nothing to install. Rather, it's an Adobe After Effects project file, commonly known as a "template" because most of the work is already done and the user needs only to make their own customizations. This template is compatible with version 2020 as well as all later versions of After Effects. Older releases for AE CS5 and up are available upon request.
Claymation Effect contains copyrighted intellectual property. The animations you create with this product are 100% yours and can be used for commercial purposes, but the sharing or online posting of project files with or for anyone other than a client is prohibited. See the Terms and Conditions for more details.
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