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  • Effect of something being drawn or painted in?

    Posted by Ash Davis on April 29, 2010 at 9:39 pm

    Is there an effect or a method of haveing the effect of a scene of stationary subject looking as though its being painted or drawn in.

    I have a still of a wall of graffiti with various animals in it, I have cut out all the different layers of the animals and have the same shot with just the wall (without the graf) which I did with clone tool. I want to have the blank wall and then the effect of the graffiti being painted onto the wall. Is this possible?

    Bret Williams replied 16 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Tudor “ted” jelescu

    April 29, 2010 at 9:53 pm

    It’s possible- you can do it with a lot of animated masks, revealing the drawings. You can get really detailed, but you need to have the drawing separated on different layers- for example, you can have the outlines of an object on one layer, and all the color fills on separate layers.

    Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
    Senior VFX Artist
    Bucharest, Romania
    http://www.ennstudio.ro

  • Ash Davis

    April 29, 2010 at 10:11 pm

    Thanks a lot Tudor, I will try a mask. I have cut out all the different layers in the image, theres nearly 20 so will take some time.

    Heres the image I’m using, do you think this will be a good effect to use for it?

    https://i40.tinypic.com/28l6uki.jpg

  • Ash Davis

    April 29, 2010 at 10:14 pm

    Thank you for the help Dave. How could I use the spray or brush tool to produce the layer though?

    Heres the image I’m using..

    https://i40.tinypic.com/28l6uki.jpg

  • Ash Davis

    April 29, 2010 at 10:30 pm

    I did consider to animate them if thats what you mean. Decided it would look more effective and natural if they were painted on.

    I see what you mean about the layers, maybe I could use the clone tool in photoshop to create the back layers of sky and plants. I will have to do some experimenting. Thanks

  • Ash Davis

    April 29, 2010 at 11:44 pm

    Do you know of any tutorials to show such an effect or a similar one?

  • Bret Williams

    May 2, 2010 at 5:28 am

    Or create the same matte with the paint effect in AE, painting and scribbling in real time. Add things like the roughen edges effect. Even animate that effect or the mask with a wiggle expression. Then use something like a write on effect and/animated strokes to reveal the masked paint strokes. Of course all the layers and elements would have to be pulled out and completely separated in PS first. And once you’ve done that, wouldn’t it be neat to separate the layers in 3D space and give a slight camera movement.

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