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Turning Illustator lines into AE brush strokes
I am trying to animate a drawing so it looks as if it is being magically drawn on the screen. The best way I can think of is to use After Effects brush stokes. Draw the whole thing and then take some time to move the start and end keys of each stroke around to get the desired effect. Someone said I could use Painter but I found that Painter does more frame by frame animation. (however Painter would have been great since the drawing is supposed to resemble chalk lines).
Is there any way to export lines from Illustrator into After Effects and then automatically turn them into brush storkes? This would be great. The only way I can think of doing this is actually taking the time to “trace” over the Illustrator lines in AE …but I would rather not if it can be avoided.
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Chuck -
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You could copy the Illustrator paths and paste them into a solid in AE, then use the Stroke effect to animate strokes on those paths ….
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cut and paste ai paths into ae layers masks. then you can use an effect like stroke to animate a line that will follow the masks.
this will work best if the ai illustration is a ‘center line’ type drawing (where the color is determined by line color) rather than an outlined stroke (color is determined by fill color). however, you can still get results by trying this, there just may be more work to get it right.
Kevin Camp
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I didn’t think of using the stoke effect. That would work…however it would require me to have one layer for each stroke so I could animated them in a sequence. (Or have a bunch of masks in a particular order on one layer. what a pain). THough…in truth that would be similar to using the brush strokes in AE where each brush stroke is seperate. So I guess the stroke effect will have to do. Just wish there was an easier way. ( I guess I was hoping some magic solution).
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you can use all the masks and stroke them sequentially… just check the use all masks box and the stroke sequentially box in the stroke effect settings.
Kevin Camp
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Also try the scribble effect – very useful, depending on what exactly is the look your going for – here’s a video tutorial:
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If you got complex objects drawn on screen I found the vector paint tool saved time for tedious animation of single strokes. In case you got overlapping objects you have to split your illustrator file to several layers which are drawn on the screen seperately.
Karim
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