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  • mattes to paths or a stroke round an animated character

    Posted by Uncleubu on September 4, 2006 at 9:25 pm

    Is it possible to change a matte into a path?

    I have some animated figures for which I have seperate black and white mattes for (no gradation just pure black and pure white) and I want to put a black stroke around the original figures as they move across the screen. I feel sure there must be a way to use the stroke effect with these mattes but I just can’t work it out. Is is possible, or is there another way to get my desired stroke effect without rotoscoping?

    Mike Clasby replied 19 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Mike Clasby

    September 4, 2006 at 9:44 pm

    Do the mattes essentially key out the character. If so you can use the method in this tut by Aharon:

    Creating an Outline around an Actor

    In this tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz

    Click on his head and scroll down.

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