After Effects Tracing

This week in after effects we tried using the pen tool combined with shape editors to create a glowing path for the brief animation.

The way that this worked was by using the pen tool to draw the path as the frames go forward. Once you add a null object to the other layer (which is an invisible shape layer to create the highlight). The path that I created had extra effects such as drizzle (which had raindrops on the path), blur and glow.

The other small project was tracing the word emitter, with the same technique as before, except no other major effects. I can only wonder how this can be used in future projects.

The rest of the time was working on the synoptic project and that will happen until the half term.