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Scribble Effect, More Accurate/Crisp AI Masks
Anybody out here have experience with this kind of thing: I am doing an AE project where I have Photoshopped images placed onto vector shapes I made in AI and saved as AI files (with the PS files of course linked). I need to take these into AE and make them scribble on tight so it looks like the vector shape (which is just a think line leading to a BIG circle where the PS image is in the center, kinda like a lollipop). I have tried importing them and tracing them, but all various line tolerances and such seem to just keep giving me pixelated traces.
I then thought maybe making them bigger in AI art board wise might help, but nope.
Like I said I need to get these “lollipops” to look real and the vector art just needs to crisp. I am thinking I will just need to redo them in AE and them just place the PS images on top, but then that leads to a question how to keep the PS images crisp and how to apply the scribble to them (right now they are monotone to the point where the pop’s BG color just works with black, I am thinking ahead just in case the client wants them full color after seeing this version).
Any help/advice would be helpful. Thanks.
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You’re saying that applying Scribble is messing things up?
Or are you just complaining about the overall lack of quality of the vector art?
Your interpretation of “crisp” is totally subjective but it’s completely based on the pixel density of the target output. Whatever you bring into AE it’s going to be rasterized to a video codec, assuming you are going out to video, which you do not indicate. As you discovered, making vector art larger accomplishes nothing since the vectors don’t really change.bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Scribble is not messing anything up, it is more that the stuff I did in Illustrator is pixelated in AE when I drag it onto the board. When I say “crisp” I just was trying to say the vector art is not as “crisp” as it is when I made it in Illustrator, it is pixelated. I am not complaining about anything really, just wondering about this/trying to learn from it.
I am just asking if there is a way that I can get my vector art to be crisper other than just creating it again in AE? Basically I need the scribble to be so tight that it will look like the “lollipops” are just forming onto the screen from off the screen sides (coming in from left or right or the bottom), kind of like a Target ad (the client really liked one they saw and when I was brought in I was just told about it and took it from there making these “lollipop” storyboards).
As far as I know/was told it is going to (I think) both video and the client’s website.
I know scribble works on a mask basis, so I know I need to convert the vector stuff in AE for the effect to work properly, I was just wondering if the pixelation was a concern anyone else ever had when doing something like this.
Thanks for taking the time to post back.
MH.
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