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| > This appears to be much more automated than some of the others’ I’ve seen. Any idea if this is the case, and how they’re pulling it off? I've done a load of these recently, and I've started a tutorial on how to do it - unfortunately it's not ready yet. It's in the pile with about 5 others that are in various states waiting for me to get the time to finish and upload them. Basically, Rob's suggestion is how you go about it. The basic steps are - - reveal your artwork using mask paths and the stroke effect if it isn't vector to begin with. - if it is vector, you can convert vector artwork to masks in AE (then use the stroke effect to reveal) - convert all text to paths (a feature built into AE) and also reveal with stroke effect - sequence all the masks and keyframes until you are happy with the reveal. - copy the mask paths to the position of the hand / pencil / brush layer. The mask paths will come in with 2 seconds duration, and roving keyframes in the middle. Copy and paste the masks in sequence - beginning each new letter the next keyframe after the previous one. You have to do this one at a time - quite tedious if there are lots of masks. - convert ALL position keyframes (except the first and last) to roving keyframes. Move the first keyframe to the start of the first layer reveal, and the last to the very end i.e. you are matching up the start/end position keyframes with the 0 - 100% keyframes of the stroke effect. The hand will now follow the reveal of the text / artwork - not 100% perfectly but close enough. You can also get very good results using the 'scribble' effect - again you can use AE to convert text to masks, then apply the scribble effect and animate the end value just as you do with the stroke effect. This is a very rushed overview - I'll try to finish off the video tutorial and get it up soon. Two things to note: - firstly, the effect works best when it's very quick. - I have also worked on a few where we have recorded an artist doing it for real. There has always been quite a lot of post-processing needed to fix up the end result - shadows, paper movement, and so on. It's not necessarily easy just to video someone, although the end results can look more natural. -Chris |
