Amazing stop motion style animation by Tiny Inventions

Red Giant sell a huge variety of some of the most useful and innovative plugins for After Effects on the market. If they don't sell it, chances are they will do soon. Using a few of these plugins, and a whole lot of creative talent, Tiny Inventions have taken "faking it in post" to a whole new level.

Watch the making of video on Red Giant TV

By taking the time to prepare and photograph live models and puppets, the animations still have that lo-fi texture of a Michel Gondry video, but with hours of painstaking stop motion replaced by marginally less (but still many) hours of painstaking computer animation, and (here's the clincher) sigificantly greater control over every last detail of the final "look" of the film.