Animated Brush Strokes in After Effects

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A nice and easy video for beginners to After Effects. Here I'll show you how to create a custom animated brush in After Effects and animate it down a shape layer paths. If you've never used shape layers, paths or masks before this will be the tutorial for you.

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Michael Tierney
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[kushalsv]

ah shit never thought something like this was even possible! Insane! Thanks!

[joellang]

hey love this tutorial, it honestly saved me because my ipad is broken! if you are someone who is looking for a shortcut, i would recommend using an ipad or phone with a drawing app. screen record, draw what you would like in white text with a black background, and stop the screen record. import it to your editing software and just use a lighten effect on it!

[pnksmigge]

I've never seen a more controllable way to do this or similar effects, you are a crazy man, Michael. Be careful, we need you!

[fadhliyunus]

HOW IN THE WORLD WOULD ANYBODY EVEN THOUGHT OF THIS??! GENIUS! Thanks Michael! Great job!

[moirahornik]

Thanks Michael! Can’t believe how easy this stuff is when you explain it.

[adorethecouture_official]

Hey! great video! looks like a brush!! how do you change the color of it????

[sun.kitsch]

I was really lost at 2:40 and after ctrl+c you need to click position and ctrl+v he says paste but took me a while to understand he was saying paste.

[MrLindizzle]

This is the best tutorial I've watched for animating brush strokes. Thanks!

[casperholm]

Pretty goddamn awesome... Now how can you change brush stroke color?

[wemeetatfajr]

Thank you Michael; this tutorial helped me a lot. I really liked the way you explained it, thank you for making this

[kamaur]

Oldie but a goodie. I switched to doing that using particular because computers were not fast enough to handle that before. I can't say that it has gotten that much less processor-intensive.

[LimeArt]

totally unrelated to what I'm looking for but this is very interesting

[tareklarine]

Fractal noise has never failed to impress me, and its elites secret lol

[hansghrk]

Mine animates the same as the example, but when I add the echo it starts with the completed image and then slowly erases it in the motion I want it to come in as -- anyone know the problem?

[virtualchungus]

Can u Change the color of the stroke? Edit: NVM got it, just used Tint effect under fractal, Great vid :3

[michalvician]

Perfect! Straight to the point. Thank you!

[senseivity]

2:43 Brush - P . what next when the position was opened ?! why the points were placed automatically on what did you click?

[cessnabor]

The tutorial is god, but when brush finished painting path after 1 sec everything erased. How solve this problem?

[caisagrace]

this tutorial is amazing omg... i wish my computer could handle it 😭

[hemantnarkhede]

Increase the decay and set the echo time to -0.003 and bam it will look even more realistic