After Effects Apprentice: 13 Paint Roto and Puppet
3h 22mIntermediate2016-11-11
Authors
Chris Meyer
Principle at Crish Design
Trish Meyer
Principle at Crish Design, an award-winning graphic design studio
Course details
In this course, Trish and Chris Meyer introduce a series of creative tools inside Adobe After Effects. The centerpiece is Paint, where Trish demonstrates how to use the Brush, Eraser, and Clone Stamp tools to draw on a layer, remove portions of it, or repeat elements around a composition. These tools can be used for artistic purposes as well as to repair problem areas in footage. Chris shows off the Puppet tools for distorting layers, and the incredible Roto Brush, introduced in After Effects CS6, which allows you to separately define foreground and background elements so that you can replace backgrounds and selectively add special effects.
Learning objectives
Creating, erasing, and animating brush and clone strokes
Using Paint to reveal a layer over time
Creating animated distortions to flat artwork with the Puppet tools
Replacing backgrounds with the Roto Brush
Learning objectives
Creating, erasing, and animating brush and clone strokes
Using Paint to reveal a layer over time
Creating animated distortions to flat artwork with the Puppet tools
Replacing backgrounds with the Roto Brush
Skills covered
Motion GraphicsAfter EffectsRenderingMotion Graphics and VFXVisualization and Real-TimeLimited SeriesAdobeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and Illustration
Concepts
Introduction
- Welcome
- Software versions and exercise files
The Brush Tool
- Setting up
- Brush tool basics
- Duration options
- Channel modes and other settings
- Animating strokes
The Eraser Tool
- Erasing different channels
- Eraser tool modes
Painting to Reveal
- Examining a finished write-on animation
- Creating a reveal stroke
- Finishing the reveal
The Clone Stamp Tool
- An introduction to cloning
- The cloning process explained
- Using clone presets
- Editing and animating clone strokes
- Time-shifting clone strokes
Roto Brush Quick Start
- Basic Roto Brush setup
- Creating a matte
Screen Replacement Using the Roto Brush
- 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
The Puppet Tools
- 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
Idea Corner
- Teaching a puppet to write