What Will You Learn? I will be teaching a dynamic paper cutout process (using a Cricut machine) at varying levels of complexity, from a single colour silhouette style to a four-layered cutout character. You will learn the whole process from how to choose the right reference footage to final delivery for upload online and everything in-between. This course is detailed and comprehensive – it is jam packed full of value, over four (actually over five) hours of content + useful notes + top tips.

 What Will You Need?

• A Cricut Explore Air (or similar cutting machine)

• Dragonframe software (or equivalent) + a compatible camera. So long as your software has onion skinning and a line-up layer capability you are all good and can apply the teaching.

• Adobe Creative Suite (specifically Photoshop) or equivalent image editing software

• After Effects and Premiere Pro are optional extras – if you don’t have them you will still be able to take this course.

• Some reference footage

• Some coloured card and (or) paper

• Time, patience and good organisational skills

​How Are Lessons Arranged? This course is broken down into easily digestible lesson chunks, some comprising of multiple videos, as well as a PDF downloadable with written notes. Together the lessons will take you through the complete process of creating dynamic paper cutout stop motion animations, as well as some bonus lessons to bring you even more value.

What Will You Be Able To Do After Taking This Course? Upon completing this course you will be able to create any paper cutout animation you can think up that you want to animate in a 3-dimensional space. All teaching in this course will be relying on reference footage too so no drawn animation skills are required, other than being able to rotoscope (essentially trace over footage). For any hand drawn animators out there though, that want to translate their own unique drawings into paper form, this method is perfect for you too.