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Paint & Stick
Paint directly in comp with your custom and Photoshop brushes plus onion skinning. "Stick" your paint on 3D renders. You gotta see it to believe it!
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We've created a video that shows exactly how the pass is made (with Maya as a reference), but we're hoping it should be enough info for others to create their own passes in other 3D apps.
Here's the video: https://aescripts.com/knowledgebase/index/view/faq/paint-and-stick/#Different3Dpackage
Please take a look. I myself don't use blender, but maybe these tools are already available in it. Perhaps we should reach out to the Blender team.
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Chris
Paint & Stick Product Manager
We don't know exactly when we'll be able to support Element, but it's high on our priority list.
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Chris
Paint & Stick Product Manager
Have you had trouble with downloading or installing?
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Chris
Paint & Stick Product Manager
At the moment, I'm a little bit stumped as to where he's sourcing the ABR files from. I'm going to reach out to Kyle and see if he can shed some light on this, I think it would be awesome for everyone if we could make this work. I have only been testing with his brushes for 20-30 minutes, but I'm already in love with them.
Now as for the translation from Photoshop Brushes to PNGs for Paint & Stick. There are some limitations. Right now, ABR files are converted to PNG, however we do not bring the other brush attributes along in the conversion. Flow, Opacity, Size, Angle, Hardness, Roundness, and Alpha are available in Paint & Stick, however you'd have to punch those in manually. (We're working on matching the brushes more accurately, no word on when we'll have something to show). We do offer full color brushes however, which Photoshop doesn't.
I'd recommend downloading the free demo, which also includes the Photoshop brush conversion script, and roughing out an animation to see if you like it!
Here is an image to illustrate the problem. All my strokes start with a large circle.
Please let me know if there is anything that I can do to eliminate the problem. Thank you for your time.
Keivn
I've seen some funny things happen with tablets. If you can, please try 3 things.
1) restart your computer. We run a side application on Mac to handle mouse/tablet input, so the surest way to make sure that application is reset is to restart the computer.
2) Set your Stroke Merge time to 1 second. This will eliminate the possibility of starting a new stroke while the previous is writing, which might be responsible for strange tablet input.
3) Purge your disk cache. Paint & Stick's may slow down a bit when the disk cache is full. I have a gut feeling performance may effect the reliability of the tablet input.
Please let me know if this has any effect. We'll do our best to reproduce this issue, and fix it fast. This is a very high priority bug, especially if the 3 steps above have no effect on the problem.
Cheers,
Chris
Paint & Stick Product Manager
Kevin
For a workaround, I noticed if you hover the pen as close to the tablet as you can, without actually touching it for about a second before gently pressing down, it won't happen. Even after changing frames. If you hold your pen very close to the tablet, and contact lightly, you won't get that big spot.
Now obviously that's not a proper solution, but maybe it can help you for the next week or two while we find out and fix what's causing it. I think the reason I never saw this bug in testing is because I keep my hand very close to the tablet the whole time, and use the tablet buttons to change frames, so the pen never breaks communication with the tablet.
Thanks for your help finding this issue!
Cheers,
Chris
Paint & Stick Product Manager
Here's a video that shows a walkthrough of how to grab those brush textures.
https://aescripts.com/knowledgebase/index/view/faq/paint-and-stick/#Scripts
Please keep in mind that this script converts the textures, however does not take other attributes such as brush spacing, so you'll have to enter those manually. This is something a lot of other users are requesting, so we'll be working on making it more automated very soon.
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Chris
Paint & Stick Product Manager
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Chris
Paint & Stick Product Manager
One, press the delete all glue button. That will remove all glue. Then the watermark will still be present, BUT if you just draw a new frame, Paint & Stick will check to see if glue still exists, then when it doesn't, the watermark will be deleted.
To see which icon is the "delete all glue" button, check here: https://aescripts.com/knowledgebase/index/view/faq/paint-and-stick/#GettingStartedWithPaint
Another way to remove the watermark:,You can create a new solid with a new Paint & Stick effect on it. Then copy and paste the keyframes from the previous Paint & Stick effect to the empty one. Glue will not be copied, and no watermark will be created on the new instance.
Please let me know if that fixes the issue! We think in the future we're going to move the Sticky tools away from the paint tools, because a lot of users, including myself, accidentally press the glue button when working quickly.
Cheers,
Chris
Paint & Stick Product Manager
Cheers,
Chris
Paint & Stick Product Manager
Look for a folder called PaintAndStick in one of these directories (modify for your version of AE):
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CC 2015\Support Files\Plug-ins
Simply delete the folder and you should be all set.
Maybe we could find a way to implement it in the not-too-distant future.
Cheers,
Chris
Paint & Stick Product Manager
I'm using After Effects Release 2015.1 and I'm using a GTX 980 Ti on Windows 10.
In After Effects prefences, it states that the GTX 980 Ti isn't supported and may cause problems. Could it be my graphics card, or is there something else I can try?
Thanks for reading!
I've seen a very similar, maybe the same bug in After Effects 2015.1, when Paint & Stick is not installed. Sometimes After Effects stops rendering, and doesn't show when objects are moved, or layers are turned on and off. To fix it, you have to purge the disk cache and memory, then restart After Effects. I'd try that first.
We do have some bugs with Paint in Stick when using non-square pixels, which may also cause lag. Can you try creating a new project file, 1920x1080, square pixels, and seeing if you can paint in that scene?
Our drawing process doesn't use the video card, so I don't think that could cause the problem, but I don't know exactly how After Effects handles all the data Paint & Stick feeds into it. Can you try a UI heavy effect, like "Liquify" or "Mesh Warp" to see if those behave as expected? If they do, it's likely a Paint & Stick issue, if they're also behaving strangely, it may be something on your computer. Please let us know, and submit a support ticket if you're still having problems.
Chris
Paint & Stick Product Manager
We're going to do Photoshop style brush features first, such as scattering, and a few other fixes and highly requested features, but I would love to support 3D layers in After Effects too. I can't give an estimate of when we'll support it, but it's on our list.
Cheers,
Chris
Paint & Stick Product Manager
'Would be an amazing addition to your already amazing product.
Scott
I don't know if we'd be able to create 3D strokes with the Sticky Passes in After Effects. I mean, it could be done if we exported a camera, and a few more passes that gave us more data, but at that point we'd be looking at very heavy point clouds. The thing that makes Paint & Stick so lightweight is we take just the bare essential data to make paint stick, but not everything needed to truly represent a 3D scene. Something like "tiltbrush" would be easier to just build directly in C4D, where the 3D information is readily available, and the 3D space is so easy to navigate. If there was a 3D stroke plugin for C4D, then you could export a sticky pass of your 3D paint, and paint on your 3D paint in After Effects! Paint-ception...
But in all seriousness, we'd have to start from scratch to do something like this, so it's not likely doable on our end. Thanks for sharing though! It's cool to see what's out there!
I 'm using AE CC2015 13.5.1
I try to update to 13.6 but still same.
Hope the problem will be solved soon.