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Realtime Stroke Update for Animating Character
Hi,
So I’m working on this project that has a character running on a track. I’ve animated the character, however the illustrator has added these outer lines to the character that need to animate with it. I tried stroke, but the stroke effect sticks to the character. Reference image below.
Please help!!
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7 Replies
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Hi Dave,
Thanks for responding. The thing is I’m not using a shape layer, they’re all pre-composed individual layers. Any other ideas?
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Duplicate your running character.
Blur it.
Use levels on the alpha channel to crush it to wider than it originally was.
Use the Vegas effect to stroke the alpha. (Adjust the settings in the Vegas effect so you only have one line and full opacity on the whole thing instead of the default bunch of dotted fading lines.)– The Great Szalam
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Bless you Michael, It worked! Great technique, will keep it for future use. Cheers!
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Thanks for your time, Dave. Michael figured out a good technique for me to use. Again, thank you for your time.
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This is a nice script, Mark. Not what I’m looking for though. Michael figured out a good technique for me to use. Thank you for your time, Mark.
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Glad I could help! 🙂
– The Great Szalam
(The \’Great\’ stands for \’Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble\’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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