Overview
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Take a creative tour of the Paint, Puppet, and Roto Brush tools in After Effects.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Software versions and exercise files
- Setting up
- Brush tool basics
- Duration options
- Channel modes and other settings
- Animating strokes
- Erasing different channels
- Eraser tool modes
- Examining a finished write-on animation
- Creating a reveal stroke
- Finishing the reveal
- An introduction to cloning
- The cloning process explained
- Using clone presets
- Editing and animating clone strokes
- Time-shifting clone strokes
- Basic Roto Brush setup
- Creating a matte
- The Roto Brush workflow
- Choosing a base frame
- Defining the base frame
- Adjusting propagation settings
- Making corrective strokes
- Creating multiple spans
- Refining the matte
- Exploring Motion Blur and Decontaminate Edge Color
- Applying Refine Edge in AE CC
- Refine Edge Matte in AE CC
- Overview of the Puppet Pin tool
- Distorting a layer
- Keyframing a puppet animation
- Motion-sketching an animation
- The Puppet Overlap tool
- The Puppet Starch tool
- Deforming multiple shapes
- Teaching a puppet to write
