brushes

[Colin Braley]

You cant use Photoshop brushes in AE. After Effects does have a built in non-destructive paint system, however.
~Colin

[Filip Vandueren]

My 2 eurocents:

Take a look at this post to see how you can achieve some ‘texture’ in a standard brush stroke:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=870240

Also, you could apply the techniques from Andrew’s tutorial on light strokes to use a custom brush shape, by using a particle emitter:

https://www.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/nano/index.html

[Ricardas Tube]

Thanks very much!

and it is bad news i can’t use PS brushes though…

Cheers!

[Filip Vandueren]

Well, it depends really:

if your brush is just a special shape, you can export a psd file with just one brush-dab on a transparant layer, and use the particle system trick outlined in the tutorial.
Even some scattering/splattering randomizing features could be mimicked using clever emitter settings.

But true shape dynamics recorded from a wacom pen are out of the realm of possibilities.

Can you post an example still from photoshop to illustrate what effect you’re after ?