• Adobe After Effects

  tracing animation with brush tool?

  Posted by Bevis Lowry on July 25, 2014 at 3:23 am

  Hi there. I’m making an animation by tracing over a video of someone running, but I can’t figure out how I can just show the part I’m painting, without the video that I’m ‘tracing’ from. In other words, I just want to see the drawing and have the source video be transparent. I want to use the brush tool, not shapes or the pen tool. Do you know how to do that? Thanks.

  Bevis Lowry replied 11 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Richard Garabedain

  July 27, 2014 at 1:20 am

  The rotobrush might work. And if its not perfect i would use that opportunity to make it look intentional, maybe some paint effects,
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  Bevis Lowry

  July 31, 2014 at 9:49 pm

  Thanks. I’m looking for that really hand-made look that you get from tracing people moving in videos. Isn’t there a way to just trace over top? Like if you had a layer with a person in photoshop, then you made a blak layer on top of it and traced the one underneath. Is there nothing really straightforward for this effect in after effects? thanks.

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