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Stroke effect/write on
Greetings! I am in the early stages of setting up a workflow for what could be a large amount of whiteboard style videos.
I have been able to create a lot of vector path images using illustrator which I have then pulled into AE masks.
I can use stroke to then animate these lines ‘drawing on’ which is great – but for the final stage I want to add a hand and pen following the path.
This is where I’m stumped.
The stroke effect uses the progress of the lines as a percentage so there is no anchor point to parent the pen tip to. I can manually trace the path using write on, motion trace or similar but I could potentially have dozens of videos in a series each holding a large amount of images. So I was sure I’d be able to find a more efficient way but so far no luck.
Any ideas from the collective genius of the cow?
I found a program called VideoScribe that seems to do what I want but found the program quite limited in terms of quality and other options and so wanted to keep things under the after effects roof if possible.
Thansk folks.
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3 Replies
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Steve
COpy the Mask Path and Paste is into the Position Attribute of your Pen/Hand Image.
Here is a tutorial which may help:
https://allbetsareoff.com/tutorials/animating-a-signature-part-2/
Vishesh Arora
3D and Motion Graphics Artist
Films RajendraBlog:
https://digieffects.wordpress.comDemo Reel(3D):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPgIJU_BR8 -
This is great, thanks both, although a slight problem that still needs ironing out. It could be an AE question – but also could be illustrator…
I’m bringing in not just one, but many paths, all of them are vector paths copied out of illustrator, when I paste them in it creates about 25 paths – I guess what I need to do is collate these into just one path so the solution you’ve suggested works.
I’m not hugely experienced within illustrator but cant seem to find a meathod of taking several paths and merging them into one – I shall continue my hunt.
Once I get the 25 paths down to just one, it should work a treat, I’m just seeing if anyone knows way to do this either within AE or IL?
thanks again.
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yeah, I’ve joined the paths in illustrator and experienced some issues with the joinings like you mentioned. It’s fixable, but not terribly viable on a long term basis as I’d spend a ton of time in illustrator for each image.
Thanks anyway for the help and advise guys, I’ll keep working on it.
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