Handwritten Text

Hello!
I'm working on animating type to have a handwritten look. But I'm having issues with my brush sizes. It's a bolder font, and is thin in some places and thick in others. Having the same brush size throughout the whole animation is proving to be challenging. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can address this issue? I'm using the stroke effect in After Effects, and essentially masking it. For the record, we cannot change this font. I noticed I can turn masks on and off, but keeping the fluid sequence looks challenging. Anyone have any experience with this?
Thanks!

... and here's another way to skin that cat: use the Write On effect. You can animate the brush thickness in Write On. Very handy. Use it as a track matte.

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Now, I have not used actual handwriting, but the concept is the same with a "handwriting font," as with the actual handwriting.
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I've been posting this advice for decades, might not apply to your situation so ignore.
If you need to simulate handwriting, it's really hard. If all you need to do is reveal glyphs from left to right, that's easy; a simple mask will do the job.
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Sure - easily one of the most asked about animated effects on
this forum - search the forum first
and you would have found a link to this:
http://www.keyframer.com/index.php/2006/10/the-write-stuff/
hope it helps
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oxonian wrote:
> I've recently found that Illustrator does a good job of
taking handwritten
> script (using Wacom tablet) and turning it into a vector
object -- mostly
> simply, via the pencil tool which just makes a curved.
>
> What I'd like to do is figure out if/how I can use Flash
to animate the
> process of writing stuff -- so that to the viewer it
looks like I am writing on
> the screen in real time.
>
> Any ideas? Note that (from my efforts so far) Flash
itself doesn't do a good
> job of capturing handwriting (too jagged) but pasting an
object from
> Illustrator looks fine.
>

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