From the course: After Effects Artist in Action: Eran Stern's Personal Transporter
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Adding the write-on effect - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Artist in Action: Eran Stern's Personal Transporter
Adding the write-on effect
Now that we've finished all of the preparation work and the tracking, it's time to start the creative process. In this movie, I'll show you how to edit the Write-On effect, and apply the Motion Tracking Data to the brush position value. And, we'll also start to designing the look of the Write-On effect itself. If you're working with me, and you have access to the project files, I'm still working on the same project. And, I'm going to open up the first composition under the 03 - Paint and Particles Effects folder. And, I'm going to start with this composition 07 - Write-On Effect. Let's double-click on it, and this is where we left off after finishing the tracking process. Now, just to be a little bit more tidy, I want to trim the null object here, my right hand tracking data, just so it will be a little bit easier in the future to see exactly where we'd start and end. So, I have this marker. I can go directly to this marker, and also select this layer, press U in order to see the…
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