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FEBRUARY 17, 2004 Animating a Signature in After Effects
3. Paint In After Effects 6, there is a cool paint feature. No, not vector paint, but real, Photoshop-style paint tools. Unfortunately, you'll have to wait a little longer for custom brushes, but for now at least you can paint with round brushes.[an error occurred while processing this directive]1. Create a new comp (Command-N) with a new solid (Command-Y). 2. Draw a mask with your pen tool. 3. Apply Paint (found under Effect > Paint) Note: To apply a paint stroke, to paint with your mouse, you also must be on the source of the layer. So, double-click that layer in order to use paint. 4. Twirl open the attributes of the Paint and you should reveal a "Brush 1" track. 5. Select the mask shape and copy the vertices (Command-C). 6. Select the Brush 1 shape and paste the vertices (Command-V). 7. Now, under the brush attributes in the timeline, you'll also find "Stroke Options." Whew there are a bunch of them. The ones you want to concern yourself with is Start and End. You guessed it, same as "Stroke." (See above.) Note: Paint doesn't have effect controls in the effect pallet. They reside in the timeline.  Play around with Paint. There's a lot of cool stuff built in, and is the foundation of some radical developments for After Effects. (Check out "Flow" to simulate buildup. Also check out the archive tutorial covering AE 6 Paint, including morphing splines: AE 6 Paint Tutorial & Morphing with paint.) Prev 1 2 3 4 5 Next Related sites: • Animation Artist • AV Video • Creative Mac • Digital Animators • Digital Post Production • Digital Producer • Film and Video Magazine • The WWUG Related forums: [an error occurred while processing this directive] 
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