This tutorial will show you how to fake the look of a low budget or homemade stop motion animation using 3dsmax and after effects. No plug-ins are needed.

You can find a real world example of this such effect here or here.

We will simulate the things that give a away an old fashioned stop motion animation which are:

Poor planning (use of lienar curves)
Variable frame rate (Choppy, not smooth motion)
Light and camera variations due to budging or moving of the camera inadvertently or without the use of rails.