Painting on a Letter

[Mike Clasby]

Animating a Signature by Aharon Rabinowitz

https://www.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/animating_signature/index.html

There’s also a part 2, click on his heas, main page, then scrol.

For flowery stuff:

Growing Design Elements in After Effects

https://www.creativecow.net/articles/hansen_jaysen/growing/index.html

[Mitch Lee]

Cool The flowery one helped a bit but Im still having issues making it look good. attatched is my ae file (AE7). I tried animating the write on brush size but this is the best i could get it to look. maybe i need to cut the “N” up more.
I cut the N up into 2 pieces. and then used the write on effect and then later animated the brush size out. If i have a large brush size to begin with it overlaps part of the N and shows part of it when it shouldn’t

Id like it to brush on as i go…and not have to increase the brush size at the end.

any thoughts?

https://www.redemptionaudio.com/preview/precomp.mov

files
https://www.redemptionaudio.com/preview/N_animation.zip

[Steve Roberts]

Definitely, cut up the N into more pieces: one stroke per piece.

Because the shape is so irregular (unlike, say, arial) you might have to do this by hand, animating a mask for each letter segment, without even using write-on.

Alternately, if you have access to a Wacom tablet, you could try varying the pressure (and thus, the width) as you write, using Vector Paint. It’s tricky and subtle. Just like real Chinese calligraphy!

Sadly, stroke-writing information isn’t included in the Postscript or TrueType spec, so we have to do this sort of thing by hand. Tell the producers that. 🙂

[Mitch Lee]

cool..thanks. any tutorials or articles on vector paint? never used it before. can i tweak the pressure manually? i dont have a tablet.

[Mitch Lee]

any articles or tutorials on vector painting?