Creating a Cartoon from Video

A CreativeCOW After Effects Video Tutorial Aharon Rabinowitz New York, USA ©2006 Aharon Rabinowitz and Creativecow.net. All rights reserved. Article Focus: In this 3-part tutorial, Creative cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz explains the process of converting video to cartoon by using only After Effects and Adobe Illustrator CS2. While the tutorial spans 50 minutes and covers a wide range of topics (some in depth and some in general), after you have gone through the process once, you will find that it's easy to adapt the Cartoonification technique to your own needs. Part One: Preparing the video in After Effects Topics covered: Dealing with interlaced footage, Basic Color and Image Correction, Creating Outlines, Rendering an Image Sequence. Click here to launch movie Click here to download project files Part Two: Converting Illustrator CS2 Topics covered: Altering Illustrator Scripts, preparing presets and color palettes with Live Trace, Batch processing using Bridge. Click here to launch movie Click here to download project files Part Three: Compositing your footage in After Effects Topics covered: Importing an image sequence, Using layer blending/transfer modes, Motion Tracking, Hold Keyframes, changing and forcing frame rates. Click here to launch movie Click here to download project files Download Project Outline Files This tutorial is also available as a podcast. Click here to find it and many other AE podcasts. Feel free to post any questions on the After Effects Forum at CreativeCOW.net. Have fun! If you found this page from a direct link, please visit our forums or read other articles at CreativeCOW.net

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	Creating a Cartoon from Video There should be no differences between PAL and NTSC here. Not sure what to tell you about the BG. Without green, you will run into problems in Keying. COlor correcting will probably not work. As a side note, you should check out the Toon It! Plug-in from Digital Anarchy. That might help you create the cartoon effect with a lot less work. by Aharon Rabinowitz on Mar 6, 2008

	Creating a Cartoon from Video hey, I'm intending to use this technique for my film studies project (only about 1:30 - 2:00 mins) and i was wondering a few things, first are there many differences for PAL footage and will effect the cartoonisiation... i don't even know what that says :O also I'm intending to use a green screen, but i don't have the resources for an actual green, what i do have is a photography studio, do you think its possible to colour correct the white background of the studio to green/blue and then chroma key? any help would be much obliged by Robert Evans on Mar 3, 2008

	Creating a Cartoon from Video give it a shot. I don't think you need to play around with the LiveTrace.jsx in CS3, so you can try and skip that part. by Aharon Rabinowitz on Jan 14, 2008

	Please... Can I do in Illustrator CS3?? by Ubirajara Crosariol on Jan 14, 2008

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