lights drawing a complex shape

[Alperen T. ayhan]

Hi, the effect you want to make is simple but takes a bit time to prepare the footage. If you show me or send me via e-mail ( alptonay@yahoo.com.tr) the image you want to draw, I can send the instruction how you should make it. ( If “https://www.istockphoto.com/stock-video-10145302-2010.php” is the effect you want…)

Alperen T. AYHAN
http://www.sinamasal.com
Always cinema…

[Gerardo Flores]

Dear Mr LaRonde

Thank you for you tips…
I just will like to know:
It is not any other way to make this easy?
Imagine if there will be a design like this…
I will need to make every songle line ( I dont want to look lasy but I like this affect and I will like to use it more often but… if I must draw avery line … mmm I dont know…

I send here an exemple of what line i will need to do

https://www.tutorials3d.com/blueprints/ferrari_550_maranello_2.gif

Thank you both of you for the answers…

Any other ideas are wellcome

😉

Thats my real name 🙂

[Gerardo Flores]

Yes you are great

I dont know how to do that but know i have an idea how to start
🙂 Thank you a lot

Have a nice day

Gerardo

Thats my real name 🙂

[Alperen T. ayhan]

[Dave LaRonde] “If your line art is in vector form in an Illustrator document, you can turn the lines into layers in the document. When you import the Illustrator document into After Effects, you can turn the Illustrator paths into masks on a solid.”

Sorry, I am late.. but also Dave’s given the answer. That was the idea that I wrote “preparing the footage takes a bit time..”. I just wanted to see drawing (or it might be an image). Illustrator and after effects work together very well. So I am not sure but there must be a menu when you right click on your lines after you select. Then when you import it to AE use stroke effect.

Alperen T. AYHAN
http://www.sinamasal.com
Always cinema…

[Darby Edelen]

If you have Adobe Illustrator and are comfortable with it then you can use the Live Trace feature there to generate vector paths from a raster image. You can then copy and paste those paths into After Effects.

That would be my preferred method, but it requires some familiarity with Illustrator.

Darby Edelen

[Gerardo Flores]

Hey Guys

Thank you a lot all of you 🙂
I have expend 3 day just trying to find the way to do this
I didnt want to believe that drawing every single point with the pentool was the best option…

YES it is really simple 🙂 with Adobe Illustrator ( which I am not so familiar with )
but it is in this way : for letters is really symple you just must

-Open a new file
-type the text that you need
-click on the type
-in the op up window give the order create outline.
2 part
– in Illustrator select the letters and
– whit the text selexted go to EDIT – copy ( dont close AI )
– open AE apen a new solid and with the solid selected
– in AE go again to EDIT – PASTE
– ADD THE STROKE EFFECT AND “BINGO”
b e u t i f u l l ( i like this effect )

For pictures ( a drew will work better )
-open the file
-go to •objec…•interactive (trace-copy) I dont know how you got it in english • create interactive trace
– select the object and go to EDIT – COPY

then repeate the 2th part above 🙂

… NOW I AM WONDERING IF WE CAN USE THIS TO HAVE A BETTER CONTROL OF THE
PARTICULAR EMITTER IN THE TRAPCODE PARTICULAR EFFECT 🙁

Thats my real name 🙂

[Darby Edelen]

[Gerardo Flores] “… NOW I AM WONDERING IF WE CAN USE THIS TO HAVE A BETTER CONTROL OF THE PARTICULAR EMITTER IN THE TRAPCODE PARTICULAR EFFECT :(“

The vector path that you copied and pasted into AE can be pasted as a Mask Shape property, a free form shape layer’s Path property, or as a Motion Path (position).

If you select the Position property of your emitter (light or null, whatever you’re using) instead of a Mask and paste you should get position keyframes that match the path you copied from Illustrator.

Darby Edelen