After efects compositing for experts question

VisceralD

So what I'm trying to do is a cartooney type render. So What I need to do is take several components of a render and make them in to an individual layer. I'm assuming ill do this through material IDs render. Basically what I'm trying to achieve is to have certain parts of the character, be a pattern, that stays stationary as the character moves. Can this be done, has this been done before.

.Wiki

If you have a material ID mask you could simply add this as a cutout mask onto the layer which has the pattern.

Just set the layer as a "track-matte". For this you need to klick the "toggle switches/modes" button under the layers menu.

VisceralD

So will this work on complex material ID maps or just a simple black and white. Can this be used with multiple masking levels.

.Wiki

If you have multiple color ID´s on one map you can try it with a color key. With the color keyed layer cou can use it as a inverted track-matte on the other layer .

VisceralD

By george you did it, thank you