With day 24 of the School of Motion’s 30 days of After Effects, Joey Korenman attempts to break out of out the After Effects plugin mindset by creating a toon (cartoon) look by thinking like a compositor.
[blockquote source =”Joey Korenman, SchoolofMotion.com”]The “toon shaded” look is pretty dang popular these days. There are, of course, plugins and effects that can make something look “cartoonish,” but there is always a price to be paid for convenience and that price is control over the final look.[/blockquote]Joey uses a technique from Mt. Mograph, which showed how to Create a Gooey Center for Torn Layers in After Effects.