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Shrillary [S] 1 point ago +1 / -0

Teach a man to fish...

  1. Download OpenShot: https://www.openshot.org/ (free and open source)
  2. Drag footage and cutouts of heads, etc into the project files pane (trim them with paint.net or GIMP)
  3. Drag them to the timeline
  4. Right click on the images/heads/etc in the timeline and click "transform" so you get a bounding box around it in the video pane. Resize it to the correct size for the first frame, and all the rest will follow.
  5. Meticulously advance frame-by-frame using the arrow keys, dragging the transform of the images to the best of your ability
  6. Export

It takes a tiny bit of practice, and clips that change shots a lot are far more difficult than ones that just show one. But overall, it's basically sliding paper around on glass, and the software automatically resizes/animates everything between "key frames", which is fancy speak for "frames where you moved the shape by hand".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3zIprwr1rk

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Shrillary [S] 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yours might be a bit too long to be a "bite sized" thing.

  1. Download OpenShot: https://www.openshot.org/ (free and open source)
  2. Drag footage and cutouts of heads, etc into the project files pane
  3. Drag them to the timeline
  4. Right click on the images/heads/etc in the timeline and click "transform" so you get a bounding box around it in the video pane. Resize it to the correct size for the first frame, and all the rest will follow.
  5. Meticulously advance frame-by-frame using the arrow keys, dragging the transform of the images to the best of your ability
  6. Export

It takes a tiny bit of practice, and clips that change shots a lot are far more difficult than ones that just show one. But overall, it's basically sliding paper around on glass, and the software automatically resizes/animates everything between "key frames", which is fancy speak for "frames where you moved the shape by hand".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3zIprwr1rk