Andrew Wilson
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Lights can only affect objects in a 3D layer but I’m pretty sure you can’t even set those options you mentioned above unless the object is in a 3D group, SO… I’m assuming the object you’re trying to affect is in a 3D group, right.
Andrew Wilson
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I just went to the Style menu on the text tab and changed the Face color to white.
Andrew Wilson
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I’m just thinking out loud here but what if you used the path you converted to make your final written image and make it by applying the brush that most closely resembles what you’re looking for.
Then use the same motion tracking to create just a fat brush outline and use that as a mask layer to the finished artwork group.
What’s your real problem… getting the drawn-on artwork to look right or the actual drawing it on?
Andrew Wilson
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That huge backdrop is probably causing the most render drag. Would you be able to put the backdrop in a 2D layer group and only have it be the size of your canvas? or does the backdrop have to move around as well?
Andrew Wilson
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I get what you’re doing now…. naaa I think you’re going about it backward. You’re erasing a black layer to reveal what’s behind it. You should be animating a paint stroke and making that your mask source. Start over from scratch (almost) by following that tutorial I posted and you’ll see what I mean about the tiny little garbage mattes you’ll have to create that are only on for a few frames.
Andrew Wilson
WestView Digital Video & Design
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I’m not quite sure what you’re doing that would leave that hole in there or exactly how you’re using the paint tool to cover it but here’s what I would do.
Use the paint tool or a bezier tool to trace over the loops. Then apply a write-on effect to that object. Then make that layer the mask source for the loop part of your logo.
Check out this tutorial for starters:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/neil_andy/animate-text/video-tutorialNow, unless you have the perfect bezier mask here is where you might run into problems… Where the loops cross, you’ll have the opposite problem you have now – you’ll see the crossovers of the loops before you want to see them. One way around this is to create another layer that is a garbage mask that covers the little parts you don’t want to see and just set the out-point on the frame you want them to appear.
Andrew Wilson
WestView Digital Video & Design
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I might be telling you something you already know but are you aware that most fonts have directional quotes by hitting OPTION-[ and SHIFT-OPTION-[
That’s the left bracket. Right next to the P.
Right bracket is a single quote, BTW.
Andrew Wilson
WestView Digital Video & Design
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That’s very good work… I’m most interested in the last effect where the paint is thrown and mixed and falls away – Can you share your secrets on that one? The paint doesn’t look real enough to be actual footage but it behaves in a way that I didn’t think motion was capable of doing – it looks more like Cinema4D work to me.
Andrew Wilson
WestView Digital Video & Design
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Make sure all your graphics are RGB – no CMYK allowed.
Andrew Wilson
WestView Digital Video & Design
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Hey, I got it…. I simply changed the start time of each object. duh.
(can I LIKE my own posts?!)
Andrew Wilson
WestView Digital Video & Design
http://www.westviewdigital.com