this technique is called cell shading, if im correct. I was wonder how to turn add this effect into a short video that was shot from a standard video camera.


was this video made from scratch with 3d rendering, or was a regular video converted/manipulated?


I'm searching google as we speak.

1/29/2008 1:13:39 PM

it's called rotoscoping. and they use rotoshop for it. made by the guy who made waking life. look it up on imdb/wikipedia.

1/29/2008 1:14:44 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping

Quote :

"Rotoshop is a proprietary graphics editing program created by Bob Sabiston. Rotoshop uses an animation technique called interpolated rotoscoping, which has been used in Richard Linklater's films Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly,[1] as well as the music video for the song "Destiny" by Zero 7[2] and the Talk to Chuck advertising campaign for Charles Schwab.[3] The name is a play on Photoshop, a photo editing program from Adobe. The software is not currently available for use outside Flat Black Films."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoshop

[Edited on January 29, 2008 at 1:16 PM. Reason : can someone find an alternative way to accomplish the same thing?]

1/29/2008 1:14:56 PM

http://digg.com/design/How_A_Scanner_Darkly_Was_Done

Quote :

"I've been messing around with photoshop and got a similar look. Here are the steps I took: Auto Level resize to 1600x1200 Create Duplicate Layer Artistic>Poster Edges Filter (10,1,6) but adjust accordingly Noise>Dust and Scratches (1,1) Stylize>Diffuse (anisotropic) Artistic>Film Grain (2,16,10) adjust accordingly Optional to create "banding effect" Artistic>Cutout (8,0,3) adjust accordingly Edit>Fade Cutout (65%) adjust accordingly I think it could look a lot better if you used illustrator to paint on highlights, outlines and shadows like the artists did for the movie. Let me know if you have any other ideas."

hmmm

I need an easy way to re-create this shit. I'm not putting in serious time. lol

[Edited on January 29, 2008 at 1:25 PM. Reason : quote from digg]

1/29/2008 1:23:30 PM

Looks like this is the closest anyone's gotten, short of spending 18 months with software that's not released:


http://cowcast.creativecow.net/podcast/converting-video-to-cartoon-part--73



It really doesnt look as good.





and here's a long process for creating an image that looks good.

http://www.illustratortechniques.com/imitating-a-scanner-darkly.html

it was written by one of the A Scanner Darkly artists.

[Edited on January 29, 2008 at 1:52 PM. Reason : more]

1/29/2008 1:41:38 PM

Just because you see something that looks simple, doesn't make it simple.

Spend the time, or create a regular video

1/29/2008 2:16:59 PM