Creating Cel Animation Style Paint Strokes in After Effects

In this tutorial, I m going to show you how to recreate the popular cel animation style paint stroke, splash effect you see in a lot of 2D animations using After Effects, Trapcode 3D Stroke and Trapcode Particular. The workflow I ll demonstrate is super flexible and applicable to achieving a bunch of different cool 2D paint stroke looks for revealing an object, writing on text, or painting on screen.