aescripts + aeplugins

I've informed aescripts on your pricing questions, and we should have a response shortly. As for R13, we use code for some object types that is only available in R14 or later. You will likely run into some problems using the c4d Paint & Stick exporter in R13, although admittedly I have never tested with it. I'd recommend R16 or R17, where the bulk of our testing has been done. I have spoken with the developer about R13 and I believe there will be many cases in which the paint will not actually stick from an R13 render, even if the pass looks correct at a glance.

Have you considered contacting VideoCopilot re a "sticky" plugin/output from Element 3D?

No promises, but we've been looking into ways to make this possible. Stay tuned...

Awesome plugin!

Any chance for sticky support for Blender 3D?

We currently have no plans to support blender, but if there was a demand for it, we'd certainly consider it. 

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.

Cheers,
Chris
Paint & Stick Product Manager

Any compatibility w Element 3D? 

We don't yet support Element, but we do have a workaround that will allow you to paint on element models, one at a time. You have to put a Red Green UV ramp into the model's material, then paint on that. Then copy and Paste the Paint & Stick Effect to that Red Green UV ramp, and put that into the Element model's texture channel.



We don't know exactly when we'll be able to support Element, but it's high on our priority list.

Cheers,
Chris
Paint & Stick Product Manager

hello, is there a tutorial on how to install ?

There is not, however if you download the installer, you just have to double click the installer for whichever operating system you're using, and it will guide you through. The two installers are located in the operating system folders. 

Have you had trouble with downloading or installing?

Cheers,
Chris
Paint & Stick Product Manager

Hi!

I was just wondering if the compatibility with Photoshop brushes includes Kyle T Webster's natural media brushes.

He seems to use a combination of brushes and tool presets in PSD to get really good results.

Thanks!

I just downloaded Kyle Webster's brushes to double check this. Our brush exporter looks at the ABR file, and is able to extract the image to a PNG. It does not take any other attributes than the texture of the brush itself. It also only imports brushes 500x500px and under. In short, we do not directly support all the features of Kyle Webster's brushes, however I believe if you could find the ABR files of his brushes, those could be brought into Paint & Stick.
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.

Hey, Chris!

Happy New Year, sir! This is great script!

I wanted to ask you quickly ....

...I'm new to frame by frame animation and was wondering, how does this differ (or beat) Photoshop's frame by frame video animation? I have a lot of artist brushes in Photoshop that are nice and realistic when painting in Photoshop. I'd be afraid the results wouldn't come over to After Effects since the brush files are .png files.

Thanks in advance!

Peter Baker

The biggest advantage we have over animating in Photoshop is that After Effects is built purely for animation, so everything is a lot more seamless. Playback in After Effects is very fast and smooth, whereas I've heard some users complain that Photoshop playback isn't always in real time. After Effects also has a great keyframe system, which makes timing and altering animation very quick. You can also use all of the After Effects effects and transforms, which give it a huge advantage over Photoshop. Most users would say Onion Skin is the main reason they'd rather work in Paint & Stick/Ae than in Photoshop, because the ability to see your nearby frames makes it so much easier to draw your current frame correctly.
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!

Yes! They're awesome. I've been using them all the time.
Thanks for the quick reply. It would be so cool if you guys can make this happen.

I think so too! We'll do our best.

I just wanted to start off by saying that this is a great addition to AE.  I'm stoked to be able to work directly in AE with my other animated elements.  I am running into one problem that is a bit of a show stopper for me.  Whenever I draw my first stroke on a frame using my Wacom tablet, the first part of the stroke draws on at the full diameter of the brush.  Once the pen is moving, then it responds correctly to the pressure of the pen.  If I place several strokes on one frame, the tendency for it to happens decreases.

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

Which operating system are you on? And which version of After Effects? If you click After Effects/About After Effects it will list the exact build number.

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

Thank you for the quick response.  I'm running AE version 13.6.1.6 on Windows 8.1.  I have the same problem occurring on two different machines using he same OS and AE version (two different Wacom tablets).  I have tried all the recommended remedies without success.  I can perform a screen capture if you need to see what's going on in more detail.  Please let me know what else I can do to help find the cause.  Thanks again.

Kevin

Yes a screen capture would be very helpful as well as verifying the version of your Wacom drivers. Please open a support ticket to submit this info. Thanks

So glad to hear Chris.  I'm looking forward to the update.  Thank you for jumping on this.  I'll create a shortcut on my tablet to advance to the next frame as well to help eliminate the issue.

It's under File/scripts. Then you just choose the folder with the ABR photoshop brushes, then choose an empty folder for their destination to be converted to PNGs.

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.

Cheers,
Chris
Paint & Stick Product Manager

Hello and thanx for this beautiful plug!

I bought the Stick-only version and using it on Windows 7 and AE CS6.

There's a big problem about the watermark, if I inadvertently click on a stick tool, the plug puts the watermark on but there's no way to get rid of it and I loose all the work done.

Thanx again.

Francesco

You can actually remove that watermark. There are two ways-
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