• Adobe After Effects

  Vector Paint Fill

  Posted by Svision on February 8, 2006 at 5:08 pm

  When using vector paint to key out a moving object I usually zoom in and out line the subject\object is there a way to just fill the inside if I have a solid outline?

  Mike Clasby replied 20 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Mike Clasby

  February 8, 2006 at 6:58 pm

  Would Render > Fill work?
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  Svision

  February 8, 2006 at 7:11 pm

  What setting for the vector paint and render > fill should I use I cant seem to get it to work?
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  Mike Clasby

  February 8, 2006 at 10:15 pm

  My mistake, Mea Culpa,I thought vector Paint would turn the interior of you Vector Paint Stokes into an Alpha, and the I thought Effect > Render > Paint bucket could fill that Alpha.
  I original said Fill, not Paint Bucket. Well I was wrong in so many ways, but below is a way to use Paint bucket with your Vector Paint stokes of the outline, and it seems to work, but might be to cumbersome or too much of a hack for you or not satisfactory results.

  On your vector Vector Paint layer
  Vector Paint
  Current Frame
  As Matte

  Pre compose the Vector paint layer – Layer Precompose – Move All Attributes

  Then in the now Precomposed layer, use the Paint Bucker Effect.
  Fill Point to within the bounds of you previous Vector Paint Stroke(s) (you might need to animate (keyframe) the Fill Point to keep it within the bounds for that frame)
  Color & Alpha
  Tolerance until it fills middle
  Color to White

  Set the Layers transfer Mode to Stencil Alpha (not within the Plugin, but to the layer it’s self)

  You end up almost there, but an thin blackish outlines of your stroke are visible, so back in the Paint Bucket Plugin,
  Change the Stroke dropdown to Spread and tweak that slider that appears, until that outline disappears.

  You might want to look at Timothy Kurkoski’s tut:

  Turning vector Paint into Masks
  https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/kurkoski_tim/paint_to_mask/index.html

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