How to Create and Animate Paper in After Effects

Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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In this tutorial, I show you how to animate paper in After Effects. We start with animating a paper texture, then we create custom paper inside After Effects, animate a paper reveal and finally animate a stop motion paper cut out scene.

Content:
0:00 Animating paper textures
1:22 Creating custom paper inside After Effects
5:30 Useful After Effects resources
5:58 Animating a paper reveal
8:50 Stop-motion paper cut-out animation

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