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stroke layer style anti-aliasing problem
Hi folks !
I’m on an HD project in which I need thin color lines to have even thinner black strokes and those strokes just doesn’t look as sharp as I need them to be.Here’s a screenshot to make it clear
The green line is basically a green solid with a mask on it, mask has a stroke effect set to “reveal original image”, brush size is 3.
I found that using a inner shadow layer with zero distance and playing with size and choke settings gives slightly better results than the regular stroke thinggie but still not what I’m after….
I guess that simply doing a bigger line with a bigger stroke in a precomp and then downscaling the whole thing back would work but I’d truly like to avoid this option as I’m gonna have a lot of these animated lines and the whole thing would get boring to handle :/
Anyone knowing a workaround for this ?
thanks in advance
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3 Replies
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Why not use a Shape layer and draw a shape – then you can control the outline easily and you get sharp vector graphics.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Thanks for the hint but how am I to use this shape layer then ?
I would have to not use the fill at all , use the shape’s stroke as the “fill” of my line, and then how do I get this stroke stroked again ?Perhaps I’m missing something obvious as I’m not very used to using those shape layers, sorry…..
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You will need to draw the line as a shape, with fill and outline.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
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