[Max Haller]

Its really just a ton of drawing and animating mask paths. Or shape paths in this case. I’ll try to expand on those 4 steps you listed in a bit more depth. The paint tool is like the brush tool in photoshop except it’s much clunkier. he was using this to make the outlines before he decided he liked it better without the lines.

To “fill” in these lines he retraced each piece of clothing as a colored shape layer and animated the paths to match the video on each frame, or every few frames.

To hide the lines, he probably just turned off that first outline layer he made with the paint tool.

step 4 he means he just hit the 3d switch on the comp with the filled in the shape layers once he was done animating it. When a layer is checked as 3D it can receive light and shadows from in-scene lights. Note that it won’t be 3d like a pixar movie or something. It’ll be 3d in the sense that it will cast shadows correctly but it’s still a flat layer.

hope that helps clear it up

[Max Haller]

Im no mocha expert but messing with the surface align tool might help. Take a look at this tut from lester Banks and maybe that will illuminate the issue.

https://lesterbanks.com/2013/01/understanding-the-surface-tool-in-mochaae-and-mocha-pro/

[Max Haller]

You can check your power profile and check the min and max speed of your cpu, you might want to start there. Some power saving profiles will limit the max speed or stop it from boosting.

[Max Haller]

Try checking out this tutorial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrjc989-Oqw It should give you a decent start at making clouds in particular. I searched for 3d clouds in particular into google and found a lot of results so maybe you can find something that’s better suited to your needs.

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[Max Haller]

You might be better off trying to make the graph in excel or look up some software that’s less graphically hands on. Maybe one of the websites here would help you. https://blog.cometdocs.com/8-sites-for-creating-free-animated-graphs

[Max Haller]

Not totally sure, but off the top of my head try rearranging the order of the masks in the layer. See if that makes a difference

[Max Haller]

I don’t really notice that big of a difference between them really, but I have had issues like that before too. I know the contrast between the text and background will affect how the the anti aliasing looks. higher contrast = more jagged usually. Just an idea but did you use the drop shadow effect or the drop shadow from layer styles? I’ve had some issues with using layer styles before so try to avoid doing it that way and see if it makes any difference.

I think the portrait looks smoother because the text is larger so the the anti aliasing is less noticeable compared to the text.

[Max Haller]

looks like its pretty much this video copilot tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rc0dNDzbuM

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[Max Haller]

This will probably be tricky if you’re new to after effects. But i think trim paths could work.

You need to make each slice as a separate shape layer, and use one of the slice layers as an alpha matte on top of a very thick colored line (on a separate layer) then when you animate the trim path effect to fill that slice, the line will only show up where the alpha matte is present.

On top of the alpha matte layer, place another slice layer but one that has the lines in place. With some tweaking i think that would work. Once you have one of the slices working, duplicate it and rotate it to fill out the the rest of the chart.

I’d recommend making a null object to use as a control layer also so you can animate the values easier. On the control layer I’d put an expression slider for each trim path effect. Then pick whip the trim path value to the expression slider. This way you won’t have to hop around many layers to animate.

[Max Haller]

Have you tried just tracking the cloth next to the image. That sharp dark crease should give you a good enough track. just start at the end of the clip where everything in frame and track backwards. Then make a null apply the data to that and parent your footage to the null and then move it into place. I just tried it using that gif and it seems to work.