• Adobe After Effects

  Vector animation puzzler…

  Posted by Fran Hartnett on February 16, 2007 at 1:06 pm

  Hi…

  I’m trying to create an animation that features a 2d line drawing that morphs from one shape to the
  next.
  The problem is, much of the animation features sections where the object needs to be squashed, for example; from an object the width of the screen, to a very narrow object 1/20th width of the screen.
  If I import Illustrator files, the vector lines will be squashed accordingly if i simply keyframe the scale width of the drawing from 100% to 5% – as in the horizontal lines will look fatter, while the vertical lines will become thinner – you follow me?
  What I would really like is that the stroke size of the line remained consistant, regardless of how i contort the vector drawing. Is this possible by any means? .. I was thinking if there was some way to convert a rotobiezer mask into a vector line drawing, with control of stroke width and colour, that would do the trick… is that possible? … or is there any other way of doing this?

  Thanks in advance people… =)

  Fran Hartnett replied 19 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Mark

  February 16, 2007 at 4:00 pm

  Just and idea…..but what if you create the animation, then precomp. Now in use the auto trace command and apply the stroke to this….I am not sure if this would work, but if it were me I would be looking at this option. There must be an expression that exists, and probably someone way smarter than me will offer it 🙂

  Mark
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  Mylenium

  February 16, 2007 at 8:29 pm

  As an alternative, use duplicates of your layers once they are animated, dilate them using Minimax or simple choker, fill them with a solid color using Fill and put them below your original layers – voil
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  Fran Hartnett

  February 17, 2007 at 11:13 pm

  Thanks Mark and Mylenium,

  will have a go at both methods. Will post again and let you know how I got on…

  regards,

  Fran

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