You can use drAEw’s brush tools directly inside After Effects. Here’s how.

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In this video, you’ll learn how to:
✔️ Get the most out of drAEw’s drawing workflow
✔️ Select and switch between brush types
✔️ Adjust stroke size, color, and opacity
✔️ Customize your brush behavior for frame-by-frame animation.
Whether you’re sketching, animating, or just exploring what’s possible, this tutorial will help you get up and running with the brush features in no time.
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00:00 Introduction

00:20 Tracing above a composition

00:30 The automatic mode

00:55 Define the Frame duration

02:00 Edit the drawn strokes

03:25 Drawing using Fill

05:20 Edit the drawn shapes

06:20 Precompose to add FX

06:50 Onion Skinning (Manual) mode

11:45 'Capellini' Brush

13:00 'Pixel' Brush

13:30 Voxel (Pixel to 3D)

14:36 'Electric' Brush

14:55 'Ink' Brush

15:00 'Calligraphy' Brush

15:10 'Barbed Wire' Brush

15:40 'Spider' Brush

16:20 'Watercolor' vector Brush

17:30 'Straight Lines'

17:35 'Confetti' Vector Brush

18:50 'Bubbles' Brush

19:20 Define resolutions

22:40 Thanks

 

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