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COW Tutorials: After Effects Handwritten Text using AE’s Brush Tool
Handwritten Text using AE’s Brush Tool Text that seemingly writes itself on is a cool effect and one of those techniques that a motion graphics artist just has to know. But just how do you do it? Well there are a number of ways to create this effect in After Effects, you could use the Write On effect, Vector Paint or masks for example, but in this tutorial John Dickinson demonstrates his favourite technique using After Effects’ Brush tool.
Adobe After Effects
Click on the link above to find John’s tutorial.
Kathlyn Lindeboom
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I tried this tutorial out and it works great! Nice job.
I do have a suggestion for others trying this out.
I used this technique on black text on a white background and all looked well in AE 6.5.1. However, when I played it back on a TV (after converting to DVD), I saw that the alpha channel was not clean. Instead of starting out with a clean white background, you could see the letters outline very faintly but noticeable. To fix this, I went back to each paint stroke and increased the hardness to 100% (it was 0% in the default setting) and increased the diameter by 50%. It was a lot of work but well worth it.
Thanks again,
Leor Brenman
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