What I'd like to know is how you even get a glowing effect. Does it come with most stop motion softwares?

@Sean, You can't rotoscope in my version, thats for AE5 +, if you know any alternatives for rotoscoping please share.

@William, Yes AE includes a glow effect. And no not with most.

LMD, When I attempting to track the glow effect and it did track successfully, however for some reason the actual glow effect doesn't show up even tho the glow effect has been chosen? Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? heres a photo.

Sincerely,
Divine.

Last edited by Divine (August 27, 2015 (11:32am))

Hi Sean, thank you for the response and yes I was referring to that!

Do you mean explaining to me very briefly how I am able to draw a mask in every frame? Do I need to keyframe every frame? It's not a bother its just a matter of understanding.

I only ask as when I mask the particular part I want to glow, when I go to the next frame it still stays in that spot, how do I move it from that spot to the next frame in order to continue the mask is what I'm wondering?

Please if you can help me out, I'd appreciate it a ton.
Just the basic concept of masking every frame, how to do it with above situation ^

Sincerely,
Divine.

Hi Sean, I appreciate the link to the youtube video, but alas it doesn't really help me the vid is 42 minutes based on a whole bunch of things in AE, I'm after 1 single thing. I'm more of descriptive person myself and understand better visually in this case a brief description would be more of assistance to me for my case.

Just a simple brief instruction break down would mean a lot.

E.g,

1. Open up a new composition,
2. Add in glow effect
3. Use the pen tool to mask the part you want to glow,
4. ?
5. ?
6. ?
7. ?
8. ?

Would really appreciate it.. Again if I knew what to search I'd search it up myself I've looked to youtube for some answers but don't know what to write specifically for this. Please just a simple break down would be very helpful.

EDIT:
I've attempted to keyframe it through the mask path but it doesn't follow it as I track it with the keyframes, I really am confused.

Sincerely,
Divine.

Last edited by Divine (August 27, 2015 (12:18pm))

Thanks OldScratch just been watching it and it seems to be good for this! I'll try it out tomorrow, and if theres any issues I'll post back here

Is Rotoscoping a easy alternative than to mask each frame?

Sincerely,
Divine.

0ldscratch to the rescue once again.

"Masking each frame" sound to me like just about exactly what Rotoscoping is.

Don't use Mocha. Just use an adjustment layer with the effect you want applied to it (or even a solid set to screen/add, however you want to handle that part) and use the pen tool, keyframing the path each frame and moving the points t match the shape you're following.