I am following several tutorials for an end effect of a hand or writing tool that appears to draw a picture. I am attempting to have the hand draw out the picture by first taking the picture and using a stroke effect and tracing it with the pen tool. However, I am experiencing a few issues with it so far, namely:
1. I trace the image I want drawn with the stroke effect. I copy the mask produced from tracing and then paste into the positon keyframe of my hand comp. The problem here is it masks out section of my hand.
2. Get the hand to follow the mask path created on the image. The alternative in the video tutorials for this type of effect often manually keframes the hand into position. I was hoping by pasting the mask path into the position keyframes for the hand it would automatically follow the drawing.
Please see image below for illustration (please click to enlarge), thanks for your time
