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FEBRUARY 17, 2004 Animating a Signature in After Effects
Adding a pencil To add a writing utensil, simply import your raster art and move the anchor point to the tip of the instrument (pencil/pen/quill...).[an error occurred while processing this directive]You can use any positioning system you'd like, but for the sake of convenience, let's use the "Write-On" plug-in since it already contains position data. Follow the steps outlined above for technique No. 2 (Write-on). Then: 1. Import your pencil image (or download this one: pencil.tif). 2. Select the pencil layer and move the anchor point to the tip. (Keyboard shortcut = y) 3. Reveal the Position parameter for the pencil layer (p). 4. Option-click the stopwatch for position to turn on expressions. Using the pick-whip, drag to the brush position of the "Write-On" effect. Now, where your stroke goes, so will your pencil. Change the timing? The After Effects expression takes care of the position data for the pencil layer. You can download the "Love_Pencil" project for After Effects 6.0 here. You can download the "Love_Pencil" project for After Effects 5.5 here. Ko Maruyama is a freelance animator and blood donor. When not bleeding, or writing tutorials on Love, you can find him answer questions in the After Effects forum. Ko's work has appeared in every television market and currently appears weekly on ABC Kids, every Saturday morning. Prev 1 2 3 4 5 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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