Import your footage (e.g., a car driving right). Create a new Solid (White works best). Click the panel. Select a brush size (20px soft round). On the first frame where the car door is fully visible, draw a lightning bolt. Note: Draw inside the boundaries of the object. Dark pixels vs. light pixels help the tracker.
Create hand-drawn, frame-by-frame glowing animations or "boiling" textures directly over your footage. AEScripts Paint Stick v2.1.2c for After Effec...
Absolutely. While Adobe has introduced "Roto Brush 3" and "Properties Panel" updates, they have yet to solve the vector frame-by-frame gap. The alternative is to animate in Toon Boom Harmony, export ProRes, and cut it back into AE—a nightmare for iteration. Import your footage (e