Sketched Type Animation from Emma Nicholson on Vimeo.
In this workshop I was shown how to take a range of sketches which look the same (however have slight variations because I can not possibly draw exactly the same without assistance) and create an animated illustration which has natural organic movement.
The first step was to process my sketches so I scanned them in and removed all colour information plus I re-defines the white, black and grey tones to give the line art more definition. I then imported the image into After Effects where I adjusted how many frames each drawing lasted, essentially speeding up or slowing down the effect. Then using the pen tool I drew over the letters, this does not make a mark on the composition, but generates information for an effect to follow. I then applied the stroke effect to the path which reveals the sketch underneath gradually, giving the impression the words are drawing themselves. I tweaked the width of the effect to ensure it covered the pencil lines, and I adjusted things like the speed of the effect to get a natural appearing drawing motion. I then added a slight wiggle effect to the background to give it some organic movement to match the illustration.
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