[Brian Warner]

In case this helps anyone else who finds the thread… here’s a post on how to do what the original poster wanted:
https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/paper-cut-out-stop-motion-animation-effect/

[Brian Warner]

I realize this is a few years old… but wanted to see if someone had an update to using after effects in frame by frame.

I totally get were the original poster is coming from. What I was hoping to see was a real answer to the question, rather then “try software XYZ that costs $$$$”

I keep hitting these walls with animation. You get a package like Toon Boom that is so uterly unintuitive, and has little drawing capability and costs over a grand, or you end up with software that no longer exists but everyone tells you it’s what you need.

There has to be a way to go frame by frame in AE or Premiere Pro.

I’ve been using every animation package that’s known, via the 30 day trials… i’ve tried: anime studio, pencil, paper, toon boom, tvpaint… each has a great asset, and then some serious draw backs. So I end up using like 3 different programs, and I can’t afford to buy all this stuff. TVP and Toon Boom are each over a grand. While I do have adobe cloud and can use the whole suite, I was hoping (prob like the original poster) to use what I have…