[Damian Dunne]

the auto trace is ok. it produces a ton of mistakes and stray masks that need to be cleaned up. It can’t get me to a dashed line either.

I swear I thought there was a plugin for this. I’ve been wrong before though ☺

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[Damian Dunne]

The problem with that work flow Corey is that I can’t keep the negative space at the bottom of each shape. To transition / morph into each shape while keeping the the horizontal line will require a ton of masks and manual keyframing.

Driving the dashed line with an alpha I thought would be easiest way. I can get the line but just can’t get the dashes… Annoying!

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[Damian Dunne]

Hi Greg.

the client wants a continuous dashed line look with objects forming out of this dashed line.

This line is then being driven by the animated mattes/objects in the precomp without the need to animate a whole bunch of mask anchor points which may get a little overwhelming.

Thought there might be way to attach a dashed line to a matte somehow. It seems simple enough when I write it…

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[Damian Dunne]

The stroke effect only responds to masks. I don’t have any masks just mattes. Plus it doesn’t support dashed lines.

Tried Vegas but it doesn’t produce a great result. Too soft and a little glitchy in places.

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[Damian Dunne]

hey just came across this.

We’ve been using RenderGarden for all our AE rendering lately. It takes full advantage of multi-core threading and easily splits renders across PCs and Macs (if config’d properly).

It’s been a real find for us.

https://www.mekajiki.com/rendergarden/

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[Damian Dunne]

Thanx for the feedback Bob.

Will have a look at the A+ setting. I think it could be to do with the refresh rate of the LEDs… possibly.

Thanx again.
d

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[Damian Dunne]

yeah nice one Michael. Thanx for that.
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[Damian Dunne]

hey thanx Ted, some good links there.
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[Damian Dunne]

thanx Steve.

Yeah I guess I would approach it in much the same way. Photo realistic is the plan though it still is supposed to look comical. I would also like to get some movement in the cheeks and the rest of the face. Thought if someone had come across a tute they could forward it through.

thanks again. cheers. D

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[Damian Dunne]

hey thanx for those link there Nolan. There are a great help!

I was wondering if there was also something like what https://www.gnomononline.com have where you subscribe to a weekly class.

thanx.
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