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Using the paint tools - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training
Using the paint tools
Whether your workflow is more motion graphics-based or whether it's more visual effects and compositing-based, After Effects has some really cool paint tools that work well in both arenas. First, we're going to look at how the basic Brush tool works and how that applies to motion graphics. Then we'll move on to see how it can help you to do visual effects and compositing. I have here this motion graphics background that I've created and I have this solid layer, which just says Paint On Me. So, we can't miss that. What we're going to do is select the Brush tool. But in order to paint on this layer, we actually have to open this layer up in what's called the Layer panel, which we looked at earlier in this training series. So, I'm going to double-click this layer to open up the layer panel. Back in the old school days of After Effects you just had to do everything in the Layer panel. Now pretty much only painting. What I'm going to do is I'm just going to ignore for right now the Brushes…
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Contents
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After Effects workflow overview2m 18s
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Bringing elements into After Effects2m 23s
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Adding elements to the Timeline1m 57s
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Working with layers3m 45s
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Creating animation with presets3m 24s
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Applying effects3m 34s
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Creating animation without presets5m 38s
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Previewing your work2m 46s
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Exporting content as a movie file2m 29s
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A showcase of effects2m 34s
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Creating a layer for effects3m 1s
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Applying effects4m 54s
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Animating effect properties4m 29s
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Using Glow5m 34s
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Creating patterns and textures6m 57s
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Creating a fireball7m 9s
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Using the Cycore effects5m 58s
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Adding blur5m 45s
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Creating a galaxy scene from scratch8m 38s
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Distorting objects with effects4m 7s
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Creating and using lens flares4m 21s
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Creating lightning bolts4m 3s
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Viewing random variations with Brainstorm4m 39s
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Understanding spatial interpolation2m 5s
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Creating and adjusting motion paths3m 55s
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Orienting moving objects along a path1m 29s
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Drawing motion with Motion Sketch2m 51s
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Creating pauses in animation3m 6s
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Understanding temporal interpolation1m 56s
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Easing keyframes5m 57s
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About the Graph Editor4m 25s
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