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Okami-like graphics…
A client handed me a line drawing of a rhinocerus (their logo) that looked SURPRSINGLY like the style of animal drawing from the game, Okami, so I’m interested in possibly trying to animate it similarly. Basically, Okami’s graphics look like a liquid, moving water color painting with thick black outlines (cell-shading, basically). Everything is fluid, so the boarders of objects and patches of color sort of “ooze” around slightly (hard to describe).
I was thinking of using masks to trace the line art, and then animate the mask shape with a wiggler, but then I found out that you can’t put an expression on a mask shape, or even wiggle it with the wiggler. So I’m kind of stuck.
Maybe there is some easier way of making the picture animate in this way. Keep in mind, it’s fairly complex, so it’ll have something like a hundred masks to animate.
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I think I’d try warping the line art whole (maybe keyout the white first). You might want to look at Distort > Wave Warp (decrease Wave Height, increase wave width a lot) or Turbulent Displace (maybe half the Amount and Size). There are lots of parameters to tweak on both.
You can wiggle a mask’s vertices but it’s a bit roundabout. It ties the vertices to trackpoints, and you put an expression on the trackpoints, then convert the expression to keyframes, then tie those keyframes to the mask vertices with a script… a bit complicated for what you want to do. A link is here:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/891545
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Effects>Render>Scribble should do just fine. Coupled with Roughen Edges and CC Vector Blur you should get pretty close.
Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
https://www.broadcastGEMs.com – Adobe After Effects project files
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