Scribble effect managing 500 masks

	Scribble effect managing 500 masks by Cristian Perenyi on Jun 26, 2009 at 7:03:16 pm Hello Everybody. First, thanks for manage and share all this information. This site is a valuable reference for every designer. This is my first post here. My problem: I'm trying to add some texture and pencil look to an animate hand-draw illustration. I guessed that scribble effect does it. Sadly I found that the effect really consumes lots of resources when try to manage 500 masks import with the copy-paste method from Illustrator (One single drawing) . I am working on a Mac pro Intel 2 x 3 GHz Quad-Core, 12 GB RAM, but still I can barely work... CS4 crashed almost all time and if doesn't I just way too slow. I tried, use the plain drawing with autotrace (instead importing vectors from Illustrator) but still the number of masks is around 400. I asume that scribble is a very limited effect that really can't handle complex illustration imported as vectors from Illustrator. By complex I mean a story-board frame. It this correct? Or am I missing something? I am giving up with the scribble effect, triying to achieve something similar with diferent filters. No success so far. Any clue? Thanks in advance. c. Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: Scribble effect managing 500 masks by Cristian Perenyi on Jun 27, 2009 at 5:28:38 pm Thanks Immanuel for your tip. That way should work. Although I think that the scribble effect needs some redesign. I compared stroke effect and 3d stroke effect (without animating in 3d, used to draw the lines) and the 3d one is far faster than the other. Better programming I guess. Just a though, Is there any way to combine all the "vectors-layers-mask" in Illustrator to one (even if they are not overlapping, so I can only import just one in AE? I used the pathfinder and shape options in Illustrator but still I got 400 "vectors-masks". I read in an old post here that is not possible, maybe with the new version is possible? Thanks, Cristian Perenyi · https://cristianperenyi.com Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: Scribble effect managing 500 masks by Cristian Perenyi on Jun 27, 2009 at 9:22:18 pm Hi again. I see, Trapcode is like Barcelona FC (soccer) ;-) Interesting, I didn't know that about the nodes instead the actual number of mask. Anyway, I am giving up. To render 15 frames i took 13 minutes. And that's only a fourth part of the whole mask (yeap, I split the mask four times...) I just can't believe that nobody tried to make this type of "pencil look" effect before. I uploaded an example of a simple drawing, with only 40 masks-vectors. It took a 15 minutes render. Sadly for me, the rest of the drawings are 10 times more complex. Thanks again, Cristian Perenyi · https://cristianperenyi.com Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: Scribble effect managing 500 masks by Cristian Perenyi on Jun 30, 2009 at 3:09:33 pm Hi, Thanks man. It doesn't look bad. But this is a simple drawing, and it took too much render. So I dropped using this filter. I tried the paintbrush effect but it lacks of an parameter to set a frequency. It just continue animate the brushes. And what I'm looking for is to get a 6 fps frequency... Anyway I think the better solution (so far researching and trying was the only thing done the past 10 days..!) is just draw a second frame, loop and change de frame rate. Cheers. Cristian Perenyi · https://cristianperenyi.com Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index