3 Light Stroke Techniques For After Effects | Tutorial (No Plug-Ins)

[@SonduckFilm]

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[@Sunzen44]

why did you use the stroke effect instead of the trim path? Doesn't it easier and sort of keep the same effect?

[@3DArabianArtist]

Nice tutorial man, I just started learning AE and your channel so amazing for a beginners like me

[@SonduckFilm]

Keep it up! Thanks for watching bro!

[@kiselsky]

@@SonduckFilm thank you! Your works are awesome!

[@kingchinnoyidarmy]

massive thank you for this one, really helped me for my recent project

[@tsizzleowned]

Why is it that when I paste my Mask path on the position of the lens flare, it's not on the same path?

[@Nyxxity]

Been watching all your vids and youve literally taught me After Effects

[@Forever609]

Thank you very much, I knew how to use and utilize about glow stroke and blur shadow!

[@happycrayon7621]

Hey man, was just waiting. This is awesome. Huge fan .

[@SonduckFilm]

Thanks for watching 🙂

[@AAvfx]

Very clean and professional! Thanks!

[@AkiKinabalu]

Good video but too fast for beginners . Please stop by at each step and explain the purpose of them in the future

[@TiaCrafts]

Thanks for the Video, it was perfect! I made few slight adjustments to make it Lottie Friendly but this was exactly what I needed to figure it out!

[@MuhammadImran-ou2yw]

Thank you so much sir! Love you

[@clarakyme]

Thank you for the tutorial it's awesome! Although, one suggestion... you might want to talk slower? I had a hard time catching everything you said and had to watch through this several times while trying to follow along

[@Will-cu9sp]

Play it back .75 speed - did the trick for me!

[@mohaimenbheer9816]

your channel is literally a treasure full of great and creative content! keep it bro and don't stop

[@NathanFerrazzi]

Dude, your videos are AWESOME!!

[@fabioroncal8763]

thanks! I've learned something today!

[@allakomskis7351]

Hey Josh, When I create the mask of the text the anchor point for each individual letter is in a different place than where it is on your example. when I try to change the anchor point for the letter it tries to adjust the a.p. for the layer instead. any insight? Thanks for all of your videos and the time you put in. It's appreciated!

[@sauravk865]

You make complex animation simple. Thank you for this wonderful work.

[@pkenergies6453]

Thanks J. Your tutorials are really helpful 🙌🙌🙌.

[@oceanzproductions]

Such a great tutorial bro. Thank you 🙏🏼

[@obv_design9310]

This is awesome! Thanks, Joshua!!!

[@SonduckFilm]

Thank you boss 😃

[@FrostyTheBeerMan]

Hi Josh ! I'm here ! THANK YOU !

[@SonduckFilm]

No problem! Hopefully this older tutorial helps!

[@LACM]

You're just amazing, love your tutorials 👍

[@neme-14]

Excellent work

[@chung8398]

Very helpful,thanks a lot!!

[@ahmadboushi4292]

Great, thank you

[@izabelahd3481]

Love your videos, just wish you would zoom in when you do things because it's so small and blurry. Still give thumbs up though!

[@christianmefeuya5094]

thank's Joshua

[@riyanxavier5648]

Superb work ❤❤❤

[@lancinekeita4823]

Just keep growing out the Beard Josh. Let it grow

[@CrookzArtwork]

thanks for sharing

[@aestheticwarrior8389]

Thank you very much! 🤗

[@SonduckFilm]

You’re welcome 😊

[@engineerirfan]

AWESOME VIDEO DEAR BRO 💟👍

[@gandhibapu6198]

Wow

[@austinedwards6334]

This effect is great, and a great tutorial. However, I am trying it with a lot more text. Is there a way of automatically applying the lens flare to each letter, or does each letter have to be done individually?

[@mr.milograph1443]

Good job

[@williamchurchill3386]

Could you do one where yu edit a logo from eps or vector format? Every time I paste all the paths from my outlined layers into a mask layer the outline then only goes rectangle around the border of the group of masks on the individual masks. For the life of me I cant work around it.

[@pixileads]

stroke effect is not working :( using adobe ae 2020

[@joshnicksson]

Hey buddy, what`s up? I was wonder if you have an After Effects course!!!....that would be great!!!

[@multivizor]

Superrr! 💯👍

[@sekiki96]

Wow I've learned so much just with this one, you motivates me to level up so bad thanks!! X)

[@mumulrastogi]

Hi I am not able to find any results when I use Effects>Generate>Stroke...it doesn't show any stroke animation on the first letter

[@Sunzen44]

increase the brush size incase you using less than a "full" view for the quality

[@jeokuneho]

Hello sir can I ask how can you do this without the text getting animated but the flares still moving

[@kelseygamer]

Josh, I'm curious how you can adjust the starting point of the trace. I understand how to adjust the trim path of a layer, but my Auto-Trace starts in the same spot every time. (Or will I have to manually edit the keyframes for each object?)

[@desmanage]

HI, JN - is there anyway we can get the inner part of letters (as in the R and O in your example) to fill in? The effect kind of works with stylised text such as this, however when I use a different font with lower case text it looks a bit weird. Some really useful things here especially the flare effect and how to attach to the text motion path. As you American chappies would say that was awesome Enjoyed the Skillshare video on GLOW that was awesome too. Many thanks as always for taking the time out to do these videos I can see I am not the only appreciative subscriber. KP Doncaster, UK somewhere...

[@desmanage]

Cracked it, JN - hadn't realised that inner strokes are kept in the Stroke effect as a repeat of the letter - so an 'a' is shown twice in the drop down, the 2nd 'a' being the inner stroke. Great stuff - having fantastic fun with this one! KP

[@mktv8961]

Unable to do this task don't know why i try 3 times but after copy text to lens position text and lens don't match

[@spadedtokaholic]

so what if im following along but when I set the end from 0-100 it don't move the stroke? the mask just stays fully in place?

[@steveloudon7491]

Great tutorial but there is something I don't understand at all. That is duplicating effects. For example you duplicated the drop shadow and on the second copy you changed the softness to 80. Why couldn't you have just used that setting on the first copy and not have to dup. it? Similarly, with the glow effect you dup. this three times and ended up just resetting everything. I must be missing something. Please help. I've had this question for several months now but can't find an answer. Thanks. Keep up the good work.

[@happycrayon7621]

Actually the thing is, when you duplicate the drop shadow, the softness increases same goes for glow. Imagine it like this, if you pour sugar into a cup about 3 spoons, if you add one more, the sweetness will increase. But using excess sugar can cause taste odd.

[@T2Exile]

when you put in wiggle(2,5) in the glow part at 7:52 , what do the 2 & 5 represent? like is it (y , x)

[@gaving9018]

i tried but i am not getting initial S letter. but whole stroke

[@joseantoniomartinez.caudil8313]

I only know how to write this sorry GOD bless you--------------thanks congratulations from MEXICO

[@LewisSmith9]

can we get an xmas animation?

[@SonduckFilm]

I’ve done about two tutorials so far this year, just look on my page.

[@Krishnanvivek668]

While I making the first step it's not working

[@francocruz75]

I had a

[@bigvince4672]

This is my third or fourth attempt. I don’t know why this doesn’t work for me. 😢

[@jawaduddin1160]

Hey joshua, can you please tell me what is plug ins

[@SonduckFilm]

3rd party effects that do not come with After Effects

[@jawaduddin1160]

@@SonduckFilm can you please describe it plz I didnt get it

[@happycrayon7621]

Actually its like, suppose u r driving a car, u bought it and driving it. That car was built and sold to u so that u can use it, to do what ever law abiding work u wanna do. The road is AE, u r u, Car is plug-in.

[@jawaduddin1160]

@@happycrayon7621 thank you,brother❤️

[@happycrayon7621]

@@jawaduddin1160 ohh, my pleasure brother.

[@은챌-k7z]

형 피곤해보이는데 ㅎㅎ 괜찮지?

[@dipanshmakwana5836]

You could have duplicated "O" and scale it down and placed it inside it 😂

[@darshansolanki4318]

yo 3rd person to see this video

[@LordNecrotic]

Good Tutorial, but you speak way too fast and with too much accent for a tutorial. Just a tip... ;)

[@gamepall]

(No Plugins) yeah you can do this without plugins but it looks ass

[@SThompsonRAMM_1203]

How is this helpful?

[@AdityaProbha]

Obviously, you are doing great, but your pronunciation is very bad to understand for newbie Indian viewers. And auto-generated CC is also getting confused in some pronunciation.

[@princebrianwillhelm2470]

Hi brother i have a logo that has got to many layers looks very coplex but whenever i try to AUTO TRACE 1st problem it separates the tracing layer from the original layer 2nd setting starting time and ending time on the tracing layer dont mark those point on the time line if you have an email or anywhere i can send you a sample and help me out would be okay also

[@Moosbuckels_sexy_brother]

i really can't watch your videos. they are FAAAAAAAAAAAAAR from beginner friendly and way too fast

[@SThompsonRAMM_1203]

Unless you take a beginners course on the basics of After Effects, most tutorials will leave you frustrated. Once you learn the basics, Josh's tutorials will be so much easier for you and others.

[@assocharlpicc2506]

Woow woow 😍💋 💝💖❤️