Can you Texture & Stylize Ouroboros Strokes in After Effects?

[@slaterT]

Thank you for taking your time to explain this. So much respect for your care for the motion design community

[@limestone_xyz]

Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge :) So glad you are back with new content!

[@georegulus]

Hey @Gertsch! Yes, I noticed I get really motivated to show how something works when someone ask a specific question so I'm introducing this new question series. This keeps it manageable and Its better than me trying to come up with something hoping others will like it.

[@zachr0]

Is it possible to copy/paste a the ouroboros styling from one path to a new one?

[@ibeenjammin]

Hey Sander! Any chance you'll add support for tapered strokes? The individual ouroboros strokes can be tapered individually, but it would be awesome if it could automatically match the taper of the original stroke!

[@georegulus]

I'm currently looking into that as the AE beta has the option to taper. Naturally each Ouroboros stroke has its own taper function and it would be hard to make them act as a whole. However, what you can do is apply the taper to the original stroke and then apply a set matte effect to the ouroboros stroke and point it at the original stroke. This will create a matte and make it look like the ouroboros stroke was tapered as a whole. Email me at [e-mail] if you want to continue the conversation or have specific ideas on how it should work.