[Matthew Boutros]

Thanks heaps Filip, I’ve never used Javascript before but I’ll have to give it a go!

[Matthew Boutros]

Thanks Walter, I’ll check that out. And thanks again for that randomised comp script you made! Very excited to try that out on an upcoming project.

[Matthew Boutros]

Walter… this is incredible!! Oh I can’t wait to try this out. Heck yeah! Not sure why I didn’t get a reply notification so I’ve only just found out about this.

[Matthew Boutros]

It’s a good point! I don’t remember which one I learnt it from but this tutorial looks close: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN_J1_dlYh4

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[Matthew Boutros]

Some techniques I’ve used to create handdrawn looks:

Using Roughen Edges is a great way to create thick and thin line variation – and using a turbulent displace with small size can create a good roughened texture.

A large turbulent displace can make a straight line a little curvy, but use subtley. If you make the line a little wavy like that, CC Composite another copy of the original line below to make it look like two sketchy lines, then add your textured tiny turbulent displace over the top of both.

All of these effects can be randomised to create a boil effect. Select all your layers, use the search bar for ‘Seed’, and this is the expression I use inside their Random Seed value:

posterizeTime(5)
random(1000)

This can create some real genuine random handdrawn looks, although can take a while to render.

[Matthew Boutros]

After searching for ages I found the answer 30 seconds after posting this!

Needed to look up the phrase ‘wiggly selector’. Admins please feel free to delete this.

[Matthew Boutros]

This is helpful for other projects I have, and will look into it.

Maybe I shouldn’t have mentioned streaming – I really want to know if this is possible in After Effects first and foremost. I have a lot of things I want to do with this technique, and don’t want people getting caught up in this particular project.

Thanks again for your reply Robert!

[Matthew Boutros]

Can you suggest a tool? After Effects is what I know, so I’d like to know if it’s possible – but if you have other suggestions please let me know!

[Matthew Boutros]

I had a similar problem, no great solution but this was fairly painless:

Go into each problem comp –> make sure content was continually rasterized there –> Scripts –> Scale Comp –> Factor of 4 –> Go back and make the scale 25%. (If you’ve animated the Scale then you’ll need make each keyframe a quarter the amount)

https://www.reddit.com/r/AfterEffects/comments/evesfw/help_needed_continually_rasterize_with_3d_vector/

[Matthew Boutros]

I was really really hoping that wasn’t the answer, but it looks like you’re probably right. Such a shame, the info is all there! I will almost have to start the compositing from scratch.

Thanks so much for the feedback.

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