Creating a Watercolor Painting Look
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A Red Giant Video Tutorial from Creative COW
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Aharon Rabinowitz
New York, USA
©2009 Aharon Rabinowitz, Red Giant Software and CreativeCOW.net. All rights reserved.
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In this episode, Aharon shows you how to turn your video into an animated watercolor painting.
This is part of a Red Giant TV series here at CreativeCOW.net. Red Giant Software products are available as plug-ins for popular video editing and effects applications, including Adobe After Effects®, Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Premiere Pro®, AVID®, Sony Vegas® and Apple Final Cut Pro®/Motion®.
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Comments | | | | Hi Aharon
Great fun tutorial for creating a watercolor painting look.
I'm about to start working on a Flash animated cartoon for television. It's based on a book in which the illustrations were done in watercolor and we want to try and repicate that look in our animation or try and get as close as possibe to it.
Your tutorial works great on live action. I haven't tried it but I don't think it will work with the flat colors of characters created and animated in Flash. I think the animation is going to be outlined as well (or maybe we shouldn't outline them). Can't think of any way of getting the effect done in Flash, so it has to be done after animation. And as usual there absolutely no money in the budget to do it like they did it in the movie 'Miss Potter' with all the multiple layers and matts.
Do you have any suggestions on how to have the Flash animation have a water color look? Any suggestions on what to do when the characters stops moving or just parts of it move? Do you know of anyone who has pulled off this effect on a animated catoon? Or if you are the wrong person to ask, can you point me in the right directions?
Many thanks
vikas
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