Hello. I've been perusing for best practice tips in Sketch effects with movies. I have just began to feel my way around Studio Art and an under a deadline to finish a film before the festival.
I'm taking video of animals and using sketch looks (specifically Pen and Ink2, which is under the natural area) to make it an animation. Normally, it's one animal. The problem is that a lot of the footage has trees and such around it, which do not convert well with the effect.
Any tips on how to work with this? I would love more information. Thanks so much.
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You could try masking out the areas of the canvas that you don't want the sketching to occur in.
You can use the selection tools to do that. Depending on how much movement and color differentiation there is in your source movie, that might be relatively easy or tedious.
Here's a tip on region selection.
You can make your selection steps a part of your PASeq if you wish. And you can keyframe them if needed.
Or you could first process your source movie to extract the objects of interest. And then process that movie to get the paint animation effect.
Another option would be to apply some kind of blur or smear effect to the areas of the canvas that are the background. After the painting step, so that those areas of the canvas blur or smear out. A water wash effect might work well for that. Again you could mask those additional steps. Or you could keyframe manual drawing of the water wash.