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Paint Animation – Onion Skinning?
Hello,
What I’m attempting is frame-by-frame traditional cell style stylus-drawn animation. With AE’s paint tools, this would appear to be no problem, except that only Vector Paint allows the absolutely essential Onion Skin which allows preview of the surrounding few frames at reduced opacity and different color.
So, what I want to be able to achieve is automatically updating layers which are exact duplicates of the current layer, offset by single frames, and at reduced opacity.
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If there is any alternative way of achieving the same means. What I need is flash, but not vector-based, and with AE. =P
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2 Replies
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Precomp your animation. Make two copies of the precomp, the top copy being offset by a couple of frames and reduced opacity.
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this would appear to be the perfect solution, except it does not allow one to paint while viewing the other frames, only during playback. Since the painting must be done while the nested composition is open for editing, you can’t see the onion skin while painting.
Or perhaps i am missing something here? I am only assuming precomping involves nested compositions, but if I’m wrong, can you please be more specific?
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