The Brush Keyframer
The Brush Keyframer is a utility to animate a brush (or animated brush) along a path. You create the path by setting keyframes at important spots during the animation. You can ,keyframe the scale, rotation, and opacity of the brush at any point in the animation as well as the position.
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Before you begin with the Brush Keyframer, you should have an animation allocated. Do this from the 'create' menu item under the animation menu. Whatever image you have in your first frame will be duplicated on every frame when you create an animation, so it doesn't hurt to plan ahead to have an image ready. |
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Use the scrollbar at the bottom to scrub through your animation. You can pick frames where you would like to add keyframes for your brush. In the example above, there are 3 keyframes; one at the beginning, and at the end, and one in the middle. You can add more if you want to define a more complex path. At least two keyframes are required. |
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When you have picked a frame to add a keyframe, set your scale,
rotation, and opacity they way you want them, and click the
Press the
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Animated brush offset is a value used with animated brushes. It is the offset in frames to start drawing your animated brush. |
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