How do i make glowing brush?

[Fox1212]

Hey, so I recently started with scribbling in AE, and i completly don't know how to create a glowing brush since im drawing on my Layer. I tried adding glow effect to it but it affects whole video and i only want my brush to glow. I wish to create effect similar as here Ofir Shoham (@blottermedia) • Instagram photos and videos

Thanks for any help 🙂

[OussK]

simply you need to put your brush (animated shapes)  on a separate layer and not on your footage layer,

anyway check this tutorial to learn more about this technic

[Fox1212]

The problem is, brush can only be used in layer panel so i cant draw on different layer becouse i wont be able to see whats on the video.

[Mo Moolla]

OussK​ Hehe this was such a cool vid. If your F4 key is racist lol

Mo

[OussK · Accepted solution]

Ah Ok,

1- duplicate the video layer go Edit/duplicate

2- on the new layer start using you brush and draw the stroke you want

3- after you finish click on Paint on Transparent

4- now go back to composition view, so you will be able to see your draw on a new layer

5- now you can add the glow effect on this layer also a fill effect incase you want to change the color

[Fox1212]

Ok thanks, will try it and let you know!

[Fox1212]

Heydo you also know what could i do to see drawnings from previous frame so i can keep the animation clear?

And by the way thanks for that resoultion for my first problem, it worked perfectly.

[Kyle Hamrick]

After Effects doesn't have true onion skinning capabilities (the industry term for what you're asking for), but you can kind of hack it by using some of the time-based effects. Either on the layer in question, or on an adjustment layer above it, add the Echo effect. Yo ucan tweak the time and number of echoes to show you the previous frame(s) you're wanting to see. If you're just using it to work, just disable it before exporting.

This obviously isn't very helpful in the Layer viewer, but you can open two viewers side-by-side and you'd be able to see the previous frame(s) in the Comp viewer while working the Layer viewer, at least.

There's also a 3rd-party effect named Paint and Stick that's made specifically for this workflow, which might be worth looking into if you were planning to do a lot of this sort of thing.

[Fox1212]

Thanks will check these options out, really appreciate the help.