• Adobe After Effects

  Vector Paint/Paint

  Posted by Yussef Cole on November 18, 2005 at 8:43 pm

  Hello, I’m looking to do cell animations in AE with either Vector Paint or Paint. Is it possible to animate the strokes from vector paint as it has onion skinning, unlike paint? Also it seems that with paint you have to seperately animate each stroke which is crazy for more complex animations. It also doesn’t seem to smooth the strokes.

  Thanks,
  Yussef

  Jim Kanter replied 20 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Mike James

  November 19, 2005 at 7:18 pm

  Right tool for Right Job

  AE is great in many ways, but what you are talking about here is more easily tackled with other tools. Such as Mirage 1.5 (bauhaussoftware.com) and ToonBoomStudio (ToonBoom.com). There are others as well that are dedicated to this type of animation.

  Because this kind of workflow in those apps are what they do best… I’ve not attempted to force AE to accomplish this task in AE. Different apps and tools have different strengths.

  Mike James
  VFXpodcast.com
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  Jim Kanter

  November 20, 2005 at 4:54 pm

  You might consider Painter (which has had animation capabilities for years) or even painting the individual cells as layers in Photoshop and then animating in AE.

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