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Recreate the La Linea effect in After Effects
Dear Creative Cow community,
I’m a regular reader of this forum and the posts helped me in many cases – thank you.
Now I’ve got a question and couldn’t find a solution so far – I hope you that somebody could give me a hint. I know that the classical “La Linea” / “The Line” cartoons by Osvaldo Cavandoli are hand drawn, but recently I saw an ad that features the classical character and looks like 2D animation: Vimeo Ford C-Max. I wondered if there is a method in After Effects to recreate this effect of a character “blending/melting together with the ground”. I would like to animate a simple character in After Effects that melts with the ground and forms an outline – like these examples:
I thought about a comp with the character and ground inside. Then I would add a kind of Stroke effect onto this comp that draws the line around it. Sadly the stroke effect only works with masks? If someone knows how to recreate this effect or a third party plugin that could help I would be very happy.
Thank you and kind regards,
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I don’t believe there is a plugin for this.
I have tried to find an option for years even as far as using Maya.
that kind of work is hand drawn in most cases.
Or some crazy masking in AE. -
You can use the Paintbrush tool to hand draw this type of animation in After Effects. There are also various stroke-type effects and the Shape tools which offer similar but you wouldn’t get the hand drawn quality with those as you could with the Paintbrush tool.
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[Frank Greber] “I thought about a comp with the character and ground inside. Then I would add a kind of Stroke effect onto this comp that draws the line around it. Sadly the stroke effect only works with masks?”
I think you’re on the right track.
Instead of the Stroke effect, though, use the Stroke layer style on your precomp, and set Layer Styles > Blending Options > Advanced Blending > Fill Opacity to 0%.
Walter Soyka
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