After Effects Apprentice: 13 Paint Roto and Puppet

Take a creative tour of the Paint, Puppet, and Roto Brush tools in After Effects.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Software versions and exercise files

1. The Brush Tool

• Setting up
• Brush tool basics
• Duration options
• Channel modes and other settings
• Animating strokes

2. The Eraser Tool

• Erasing different channels
• Eraser tool modes

3. Painting to Reveal

• Examining a finished write-on animation
• Creating a reveal stroke
• Finishing the reveal

4. The Clone Stamp Tool

• An introduction to cloning
• The cloning process explained
• Using clone presets
• Editing and animating clone strokes
• Time-shifting clone strokes

5. Roto Brush Quick Start

• Basic Roto Brush setup
• Creating a matte

6. 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

7. 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

8. Idea Corner

• Teaching a puppet to write