animate Paint stroke / write on effect
by Peter Popansky
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Jun 9, 2008 at 6:58:27 am
Hey,
I want to record a graphictablet sketch with AE.
My problem: when I release the pen the stroke ive drawed disappers.
In the adobe-helpfile i found this Text:
" ...this is so that you can record more paint strokes for animated playback starting from the same time."
Re: animate Paint stroke / write on effect by Ron Coy on Jun 9, 2008 at 2:05:48 pm
you probably need to do each stroke on a separate layer, so that the strokes stay visible.
but actually, the best way to do this is to create your drawing, break the drawing up in to separate strokes in separate layers in Photoshop, then bring all the layers into After Effects as a comp. Then, apply the write on effect and change the paint style to Reveal original image.
There is a tutorial with this technique here:
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/hansen_jaysen/growing.php
Re: animate Paint stroke / write on effect by Peter Popansky on Jun 9, 2008 at 3:36:06 pm
thank you for your answere but this way become to complicated at the end because i will get hundrets of lines. To much work to adjust all of them to there time-position.
Is there no easier way?
I simply want the same order as in the real drawing action. Could not be that difficult!
I can't belief that the adobe-designer did not think about this basic mission.
Re: animate Paint stroke / write on effect by Dave LaRonde on Jun 10, 2008 at 4:36:06 pm
[Peter Popansky]"As i understand it [Motion Sketch] is to create an animation path for a complete layer. "
However, if the dimensions and pixel aspect ratio of your Motion Sketch layer match those of your Stroke or Write-On layer, you can paste the keyframes from Motion Sketch into the other layer's Brush Position property. It should work just fine.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
