A/W released its Paint Effects plugin for After Effects. A trial version can be downloaded from here. After Effects 4.x required.
From their press release: “Using the Maya Paint Effects plug-in, After Effects artists can quickly create unique organic and painterly detail including animated paint strokes of plants, fibers, glows, water, metal and other natural media along a mask, bezier path or motion path.”.
More info can be found here.






