One idea that I had when creating the MotionSketch extension was that it could be used to do write-on effects. I was going to write an Actionscript class to demo this effect prior to releasing MotionSketch but ran out of time. So I tweaked a version of vCam to quickly demo the effect for the MotionSketch video tutorial. Thanks to a reader’s email, I was reminded that I still had yet to write this class. It’s now written and free to download. I’m calling it MotionBrush to keep it in the family with MotionSketch and MotionBlur. It’s super simple to use. Check out the video tutorial:

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MotionBrush.zip

I just saw that David Blatner has featured my Merge Textframes script on his Lynda.com course, InDesign CS4: 10 Free Must-Have Scripts. I highly recommend David Blatner’s Real World books if you’re looking to go from knowing a topic/application fairly well to becoming an expert. I’ve read ten of thousands of pages in software and design books and David Blatner’s books have been among the best. It’s very cool to see something I made appear on Lynda.com (also a great resource) and it’s twice the honor to have it posted by David Blatner.