Jason Milligan
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Sure.
It would vary depending on your source material and personal preferences.
Assuming you are using a video source, you could try using time-remapping to acquire the rough mouth movements you want. Then, mask them and overlay them over the source video. Mesh warp and/or the puppet tool could be useful in manipulating the footage to better match the contours of the source video. I’m sure there are a variety of options that would be useful once you got started on this path. -
It’s quite possible it was animated traditionally.
Create a looping animation of the paint stroke tracing a circle.
Scale that animation. -
Are you trying to work traditionally on paper or are you willing to work digital?
If you want to go the digital route, there are a multitude of options:
Flash or Toon Boom are two options.
My preferred method is a combination of After Effects with Photoshop, Illustrator, and/or Flash. -
Can you link us to a video from the Discovery program you are trying to mimic?
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Ten different images or ten duplicate images?
If they are ten of the same image, you should be able to use echo to offset ten copies in time.
If they are ten different images, you can also shift the in points of the individual layers or you could precompose each and use a time effect (such as time remap, timewarp, etc.) to offset the time for each layer maybe writing an expression that offsets the time based on the index.You best solution, although, is probably to follow the procedures Maltannon uses in this tutorial:
https://maltaannon.com/tutorials/AfterEffects/CGSnake/ -
Nice work, guys.
Quite impressive for two days of work.
Clever and entertaining too. -
Have you enabled AICB in preferences?
Go to Preferences>File Handling & Clipboard
You’ll see it at the bottom -
You may find this thread helpful:
https://dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=86562At the bottom of your comp window is a button that looks like a rectangle with a double-headed arrow above it. It’s the pixel aspect ratio converter. Turning it on simulates non-square pixels and will display 1440X1080 footage as 1920X1080. (assuming your comp is set to non-square pixels).
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Just to clarify: tracking controls (for motion tracking) and track mattes are two very different things.
You probably won’t need to motion track anything to complete this effect unless your book is moving.
Looking these terms up in AE help will give you a better understanding.Ink Bleed stock footage can be acquired through a variety of stock footage shops (Artbeats,iStock, etc.).
I recommend the Riot Gear collection from Video Copilot.
https://www.videocopilot.net/riotgear.html
It’s inexpensive and full of valuable footage and photos. -
Are you using AE?
Are you familiar with track mattes?
Ink Bleed stock footage used as track mattes can give you a similar effect.