• Adobe After Effects

  Drawing effect over image

  Posted by Giancarlo on September 2, 2006 at 9:05 am

  Hello everyone,
  How do I create an animation path mask over an image, to give you a drawing effect while the timeline plays…
  Thanks
  Gian

  Giancarlo Rondani

  Curtoid replied 19 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Justin Productions

  September 2, 2006 at 3:34 pm

  Double-click on the layer that you want to paint on.

  In the toolbox, select the paint brush. In the paint brush’s toolbox, select ” Write On “.

  Justin Productions
  Tangerin01@hotmail.com
  Adobe After Effects 6.5 Professional
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  Giancarlo

  September 2, 2006 at 6:46 pm

  Hello Justin,
  And after doing this I noticed how it works, but now How can this drawing be the mask for the image it self?
  Thanks again
  Gian
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  Justin Productions

  September 2, 2006 at 7:35 pm

  Hm…if I understand well,

  Paint over your layer like you were supposed too. After that, go in your layer’s effects, twirl down the little rectangles and copy the “Paint” Effect in a new comp (to a Null, or etc. as long as it’s on an alpha background).

  Then, Auto-Trace it and bring it back to your main comp and depending on what you really want, play with the Mask Modes (Add, Substract, etc.)

  Hope that helped.

  Justin Productions
  Tangerin01@hotmail.com
  Adobe After Effects 6.5 Professional
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  Curtoid

  September 4, 2006 at 8:12 pm

  https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/kurkoski_tim/paint_to_mask/index.html

  Hope this helps.

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