Tracing the path of a Bowling Ball with After Effects by Jon Barrie

In this tutorial learn how to use After Effects (any version) to create a mask that animates a line following the path of a spinning bowling ball down an alley. By request, Jon Barrie brings this to someone who provided the material and now everyone can see how something like this can be done.

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• after effects
• adobe
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• tutorial
• jon
• barrie
• jon video
• bowling ball
• bowling
• premiere pro
• CS4
• how to
• path
• mask
• pen tool

[mjbrouwer23]

Well explained Jon, keep it up!

Always learn something new.

[aJBprods]

Thanks. I try. :)

[videojudge54]

nice tut

[aJBprods]

Thanks for the videojudge-ment ;)

[videojudge54]

lol your very creative outside of adobe stuff too i need to right that down somewhere, thanks for creativity and tutorials

[aJBprods]

Thanks for your comments. :)

[KrocketAnimations]

Hey, I really liked your tutorial, but I have one question, is it possible to get your line to get thinner near the ends? If that makes any sense to you... :p When you stroke a path in Photoshop, you can tick on 'simulate pen pressure' to do that, but I don't see anything like that here... ;s

[overlookedx]

Hey thanks for the great tutorial, I adapted this method to track a car's journey across a map for a video I've been working on.

[vmacmedia]

Excellent. Thank you!

[zulff94]

how to make fire??

i mean the fire at the bowling ball? ^^

[caspertjoh]

Your vids are really good!

[TheLowBudgetFilms]

nice job jon! ive been using sony vegas pro and was thinkin of switchin over to adobe premiere! good idea?

[joshlee1980]

Hey Jon, unrelated question. I need to cut some footage of a person and put it in another scene. is this possible in CS3?

[TheSeally]

theese videos are a real help