Does anyone know of any cartoon type effects for iMovie or something that'll give some sort of colour block effect? I've had a hunt, but can only find pay ones that modify overall colour...
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Cartoon effect
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Are you talking about something that will convert your video to cartoony outlines ala Waking Life or A Scanner Darkly?
I don't think there is anything that does that effect automatically. Those movies were created by hand painting and rotoscoping multiple frames. You could always export your movie to individual frames and the run a Photoshop filter on each (batch automate) and then recompile as a movie.
I don't think there is anything that does that effect automatically. Those movies were created by hand painting and rotoscoping multiple frames. You could always export your movie to individual frames and the run a Photoshop filter on each (batch automate) and then recompile as a movie.
Are you talking about something that will convert your video to cartoony outlines ala Waking Life or A Scanner Darkly?
I don't think there is anything that does that effect automatically. Those movies were created by hand painting and rotoscoping multiple frames. You could always export your movie to individual frames and the run a Photoshop filter on each (batch automate) and then recompile as a movie.
Hmm, I thought of that effect in the back of mind and thought - impossible! But now that you've mentioned it, hell yes! I did love the rotoscoping effect in A Scanner Darkly, but I preferred that it was yet another Philip K Dick novel adapted to a movie - finally people might start reading MORE PKD!
Anyway, that sounds exactly what I need. Hmmm, I'll make some weird effect tonight and try out this automation thing. Can you give me any tips on how to do this? I have a Photoshop CS2 Demo that I haven't installed, so I can use that.
frame by frame is the keyword.
youd need to export every frame of your video into a pic format that is preferably as lossless as possible (TIFF etc)
then import the frames into Photoshop, one at a time
do your magic
repeat over and over and over.... (batch processing would help here)
AFAIK there is absolutely NO filter or add-on that can accomplish this and make it look smooth and nice. (cutout filter is a start)
HAND touch makes all the difference here.
Its basically hand animation, so you can imagine the amount of time and work involved in trying this.
I can imagine, but cannot comprehend the patience and skill required to do that! My short film is of a mate saying some quite bizarre things and it's just going on YouTube. No more movies will be made by me for a while as my Canon MVX300i was stolen a few weeks back.
What I'll do is play around with some effects and get a result that looks half decent. I may endeavor to improve it at a later date. But that would mean editing 3 mins of footage, so at 29 fps thats 5,220 files.
I have a feeling my video really isn't worth the bother! One thing I did love about A Scanner... is that they messed about with perspective a lot too, they'd shift the floor so it appeared false and they'd also show briefs bits of 'real' footage just to scare you. Once you'd become accustomed to the rotoscoping, it really weirded you out...
well using imovie your best bet is to do what was suggested. it won't look as good as the rotoscoping in the movie, but that's obvious. it's worth a shot.
another amazing piece of software that is out there for a similar thing (automated drawn effects) is called studio artist, and is put out by synthetik
check it out:
http://www.synthetik.com/
it's not free, but they might have a free demo or something... it also won't look as good as doing it by hand (preferably being skilled at it too!), but it can give some awesome results if you use it right, and they have really solid support, answering specific questions, etc.
another amazing piece of software that is out there for a similar thing (automated drawn effects) is called studio artist, and is put out by synthetik
check it out:
http://www.synthetik.com/
it's not free, but they might have a free demo or something... it also won't look as good as doing it by hand (preferably being skilled at it too!), but it can give some awesome results if you use it right, and they have really solid support, answering specific questions, etc.
Depending on how much of a cartoon effect you want, you could use the Colour Posterize in iMovie's edit. Move the slide fairly close to the Min and you'll get a slightly cartoonised look.
The easiest way to do this is to import the video into Adobe/Macromedia Flash and then rotoscope in there. We did it for about a month back in highschool. Its real easy that way and you can duplicate the previous frame and alter so you dont have to draw the whole thing again.