• Adobe After Effects

  Getting a curved illustrator shape to “draw on”

  Posted by Max Palmer on October 16, 2012 at 7:52 pm

  Hi guys- I have a logo design that I want to animate on. It has curved sections that I want to “paint on”. Normally I’d just use the Writeon effect, but I also want to be able to scale or zoom out of the shape plus have continously rasterize on to maintain sharpness. I can’t find a technique that will work the way I want, once I make the shape 3d. Is there an easy way to do this with a mask? Here is what the shape looks like:

  

  Max Palmer replied 13 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Andrey Sibiryakov

  October 17, 2012 at 12:05 pm

  Hi Max.

  Yes, you can do it by animating your mask as alpha channel for the logo curve. You need only to precompose mask with logo layer, and then make it a 3d. You will be able to continuously rasterize it still.

  You can achieve write on effect with a shape layer drawn on above your curve and applied stroke after. this stroke can be animated and used as alpha.

  I would prefer the second method.
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  Max Palmer

  October 17, 2012 at 1:03 pm

  Thanks Andrey- after fussing around yesterday, I was able to get the effect to work great with Trapcode 3d Stroke.

  But, that second method- you’re saying that you can apply the stroke effect to a path on a shape layer, and then animate the stroke? I’ve never used that technique, but I will try it in the future.

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