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Write-on effect giving me head aches.
So, in this write-on tutorial:
https://www.creativecow.net/articles/hansen_jaysen/growing/growing_things.html*Skip ahead to the Animation portion of the tut.
He uses a mask shape as a path for the brush position to follow, thus revealing the deign element.
The way he does this is by simply copying the mask, and then pasting it into the Brush Position tab (CTRL + C, CTRL + V).
However, when I atempt to do this, it just copies the mask. I can not, for the life of me, get AE to paste the mask shape into the brush position tab.
Any help? It would be really nice if I could get the brush position to follow all these masks that I just made.
P.s. The masks are not closed figures; they’re just curvy lines as in the tutorial.
Thanks for any replies.
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[Malcolm Man] “The way he does this is by simply copying the mask, and then pasting it into the Brush Position tab (CTRL + C, CTRL + V).”
You must copy the Mask Path property, not the whole mask.
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Todd, thank ya much! I can’t believe I didin’t catch that.
Thanks for the tip Dave! will do.
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Okay, I got the mask shape to paste into the Brush Position property.
There’s still one problem, however. When I paste it, the brush position goes way the heck off to the corner of the comp. It follows the shape of the mask, but for some resaon, it’s way off in the corner. It’s like it’s following where the mask would have been if I hadn’t scaled down the layer to comp size or something.
Any ideas?
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ahhhhhhhhhhhhh ha!
Thanks once again Dave!
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hmm, how about if i copy it but when paste it on brush position, the result is mask 2 formed??
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