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  • painting with crayon texture. Help please.

    Posted by Kevin Reiner on February 2, 2006 at 5:22 pm

    I am trying to simulate a silouhette of a person being drawn by an artist in a pencil or crayon texture. I have an outline of the hand drawn image that I draw on the screen using masks. That part looks great. However, I’m using vector paint to color in the image, but the edges of the vector paint are too crisp and straight. Is there a way to apply a edge texture to the strokes in vector paint.

    Thanks in advance,
    Reins

    Filip Vandueren replied 20 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  • John Cuevas

    February 2, 2006 at 6:26 pm

    I just tried a variety of ways, but besides the feathering inside vector paint there isn’t much in the way of applying textures.

    Will take a bit longer, but would probably give you the look you desire is to first take the image into photoshop. Then find a brush that has the texture you want and use the erase tool.

    What you will be doing is creating your animation backwards in photoshop frame by frame. So you would erase a portion, that would be the last part of the image being colored. Save as image099(or how many frames you believe the animation will last. Next erase some more and save as image098. Keep erasing until you get to the start. Import the psd as a image sequence in AE.

    Good Luck
    johnny

  • Dave

    February 2, 2006 at 7:04 pm

    As Johnny suggested color it in in Photoshop, but another way to animate it would be to use, effect> stylize> write on to transition between the uncolored and colored in versions.

    Good Luck,

    Dave

  • Filip Vandueren

    February 3, 2006 at 2:23 am

    precompose the brushes, make them soft black on a white solid, then import a nice contrasty greyscale texture image and overlay that on top of it.
    You can use that comp as an inv. Luma Matte on a coloured solid or other layer if you want the strokes coloured.

    normal brush:

    overlay this:

    and you get this:

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