Lesson 6: Drawing, Painting and Puppetry CMM204 – Digital Media Effects

Chapter Objectives Basic of creating, combining and modifying shapes Creating graphical elements

Topics to be covered Shape Tool Pen Tool Grouping Shape Effects Paint Tools Paint with other effects Puppet pin Tool Overlap Tool Starch Tool

Shape Tools Replaces former rectangle and ellipse mask tool with a longer menu of core parametric shapes

Pen Tool Used to draw mask Used to draw motion Able to draw custom shapes Graph editor paths can also be used to draw shapes

Fill Options Decide if fill is enabled or disabled If fill is solid color or a gradient Blending mode and opacity can be set Also able to set the fill color

Stroke Options Able to set none, solid and gradient stroke Able to set the blending mode Able to set the opacity Able to set stroke color Able to set stroke width using px

Pen Path Shapes With the Pen tool, you can create freeform shapes Able to edit pen shapes –Able to add, delete, move, edit vertices Freeform shapes can also be transformed Open paths can be used as strokes, map lines and other graphical elements

Grouping Press Ctrl+G to group shapes together Able to transform multiple shapes together

Merge Paths Is useful when you want just the outline of the composite shape to be stroked More control over intersections and fills what what’s provided by the Fill operator’s Fill Rule Popup

Shape Effects There are different types of shape effects –Merge Paths –Offset Paths –Pucker & Bloat –Repeater –Round Corners –Trim Paths –Twist –Wiggle Paths –Zig Zag

Paint Tools Three paint tools –Brush Tool Able to use like a paintbrush to paint the layer –Clone Stamp Tool Able to duplicate a image with a reference point –Eraser Tool Erases any mistakes created or erases any unwanted portions

Animating Strokes Various methods to animate the drawing of your brush strokes –Start here, End there –Write on Mode –Paint frame by frame –Use a single brush stroke and interpolate the shape of the stroke over time

Rotoscoping Pick a color and brush size of your choice Set the Mode to Normal and Channels to RGBA Set the duration popup to Custom and set a frame eg.3 At the start of the timeline paint a stroke Press “2” and paint the next stroke Continue till you get the desired outcome

Paint with other Effects Pick a color and brush size of your choice Set the Mode to Normal and Channels to RGBA Set the duration popup to Constant Draw a stroke, go to the Path propery in the timeline and create a keyframe Go forward in time and create another keyframe and draw another stroke You can see the effect where the 1 st stroke interpolate to form the 2 nd stroke

Puppet Pin Tool New way to warp layers, including shapes and text layers Puppet pins represents points you want to grab and move or you want to stay in place

Keyframing Pins With an already Puppet pined object Go to the puppet property followed by the Puppet pin property Create a keyframe and move to the end timeline you desire Change the puppet pin property’s X and Y values to your liking

Motion Sketching Pin With the already pinned object Ctrl Click on the Puppet pin, you will see a stopwatch The recording will starting till you release the mouse You can then edit the Bezier motion path as you please

Overlap Tool Allows portions of the layer to pass in front or behind other portions Used on an undistorted shape You cannot animate the location of overlap pins but you can animate their Extent and In Front Values

Starch Tool When using puppet pin tool, the shape of the object/character will tend to get deformed and look out of shape Using the starch tool we are able to get a more rounded shape As with overlap pins, you can drag starch pins to see if a different location will work better

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