Scott Petterson
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Both good solutions – thank you!
And Merry Christmas 🙂
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Kalleheikki Kannisto:
THANK YOU!1 ton of gratitude for you.
It works for me and all is good. There is one small detail that I plan to work my way around by keeping the issue in mind when making the drawings – but I’ll just show it here in case you have another trick up your sleeve:
When I animate the stroke, I will reveal parts of ‘the rest of the stroke’ that should actually not show up yet (see img#3 here):
Have a very good day, Sir.
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I see – if there’s a quick way to do that in Illustrator it would be very handy! But if I manually need to edit these areas in illustrator, it wouldn’t make sense to use this method for me, since I need to do it for many drawings.
I will do some research on Pathfinding operations. If you know how to quickly accomplish what I’m looking for or know of a good tutorial about it, I’d much like to know – thank you.
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Thank you for your comment, Kalleheikki Kannisto.
The stroke looks fine in illustrator both when it’s a path and when I expand it.
It’s how the masks work in AE: if you keep Illustrator out of the equation, and just go directly to AE and make a mask, the mask will be inverted in any area where the mask overlaps itself.
Hm :-\ Maybe it just not possible to set AE to not invert overlapping areas. It surprises me, that this is not a very commonly discussed issue, if the tutorial I’m following is a common way to make animated strokes…
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Thank you for your reply.
It appears, however, when a mask overlaps itself – so it also happens when I only copy 1 stroke from Illustrator and thereby only create 1 mask when I copy/paste it to After Effects.
I just made a stroke in Illustrator and copy/pasted it as a mask into AE – here’s the result:
Any clues?
