# Paper Cutout Stop-Motion: motion graphics style

> Letters snipped from colored construction paper hop onto a paper set at 12 frames per second, boiling slightly from frame to frame like replacement pieces. A warm, handmade look for kids content, explainers and playful brands.

- Category: [Paper & Craft](https://aimotions.art/category/paper-craft/)
- Also known as: cut paper animation, cutout stop motion, construction paper letters, paper puppet animation, handmade stop motion, cut-out animation, paper craft text
- Demo built with: Canvas · Energy: Lively · Background: Light bg
- Live demo: https://aimotions.art/styles/paper-cutout-stop-motion/
- Spanish version: https://aimotions.art/es/estilos/paper-cutout-stop-motion/

## Prompt (replace [TEXT] with your text)

```text
Animate the word [TEXT] as a cut-paper stop-motion scene shot at 12 frames per second. Each letter is a chunky shape cut from a different color of matte construction paper, with straight, slightly irregular scissor-snip edges and visible paper grain. Lay them on a sky-blue paper backdrop with a cut-paper sun, two clouds and a wavy green hill. Letters hop in one by one from below on held frames, overshoot and settle; every frame they jitter by a pixel or two and a degree of rotation, as if repositioned by hand, and their outlines boil between slightly different cuts. Each letter casts a soft shadow that grows when it lifts. Hold, do a stepped wave across the word, then let the letters flutter out to the right and loop.
```

## Visual DNA

- Chunky letters cut from flat colored paper with straight scissor-snip edges
- Stepped 12 fps motion with tiny per-frame position and rotation jitter
- Replacement cuts: each letter swaps between slightly different hand-cut versions
- Soft cast shadows that grow when a letter lifts off the backdrop
- Sky-blue paper set with a cut-paper sun, clouds and a wavy green hill

The prompts are free to copy, adapt and use in personal and commercial projects, with no credit required. Republishing the collection or a substantial part of it (for example as another library or a dataset) requires written permission.

How to cite: Paper Cutout Stop-Motion, aimotions, https://aimotions.art/styles/paper-cutout-stop-motion/