Stop Motion Paper Animation with Any Graphic!

A few of you asked how to do a paper fold-out animation just like in Ali Abdaal's shorts with ANY image you want. Well, today I answer that question with 3 different techniques!

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🎵 Cinematic Sound Design - Paper Collection - A4 Paper Crumpling
🎵 Mechanical Wave - Paper - Map Unfolding
🎵 Mechanical Wave - Paper - Newspaper Turning Page

Just like you, I wanted to know how to achieve this stop motion paper fold-out animation using any graphic I wanted. And I actually found 3 different ways.

The first of which is to simply use a paid plugin, letting someone else do the work for you. More expensive, but easy.

The second method is to actually print out you image and take incremental photos folding it up. You then simply stagger the starting point of each photo in your editing software and boom! There you have it.

The final method is the coolest. It's free, will allow you to customize your paper wrinkle animation to anything you want and can even be used to unfold footage.

I hope you enjoyed! And be sure to let me know if you use any method discussed.

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I'm going to do this today! Part 3 including photographing my own sheet of paper (:

[adama]

If you're confused about getting the solid with the mask drawn on it to work (because he never outright tells you how to make it work) pause the video at 12:23 and set your images up as he has. The only difference is you don't need to the second paper fold out layer above the Image placement. Also make sure your solid and Image placement layers are not visible before the first mask keyframe you made otherwise you will see your image before the paper folds out.

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