• Adobe After Effects

  Animating a paint effect

  Posted by Haydn Nelson on February 29, 2008 at 1:16 pm

  Hi all,

  I am currently working on a project that requires me to take some GV’s of city and turn them into impressionistic paintings, rather like this:

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/images/2007/12/06/spencer_coms_01_450x274.jpg

  I have managed to recreate this effect quite well in photoshop using a range of smart filters & masks (hue/sat, paint daubs etc)but now im wondering what the best way is to convert this in video;

  Actually as im writing this ive just realised; I can import video straight into Photoshop now, and apply the filters across the moving footage – not just a still capture… hmmm… but then I wonder if you can apply smart filters to footage? Hmmm, ill do some tests…

  Ok, so on to question 2:

  How can I animate the transition betweeen the clean footage and the painted version?

  Obviously i could do a straight dissolve, but that would be a bit dull, woould be nicer to animate the paint strokes somehow, but I need to find a relatively quick & easy way of doing this, maybe faking it with an animated mask? Or using a deform grid (or whatever there called) ost he paint layer appears to follow the countours of the buildings… hmmm?

  Anyway advice welcome,

  Thanks in advance,

  N

  Haydn Nelson replied 18 years, 2 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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