Lego Stop Motion Animation
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Continuing to practice animation skills while also experimenting with combining stop motion and 2D effects in After Effects.
Software
Adobe After Effects and Dragonframe
Requiring some pre-planning and tedious post work, I used a green screen plate to replace the background with a solid color. Then using masked adjustment layers and the level effect to maintain the feeling of a lit environment. As well as adding five different animated textures and some slight turbulent displacement.
For the character, the keylight effect works well most of the time with some tweaking, but is often unable to remove all of the green screen. using a combination of mask rotoscoping and wire removal effect to remove left over green areas. The face was manually animated on using the CC Cylinder effect to get the correct angles.
Adding the characters shadow back into the scene was achieved using a method found in this tutorial