video sketch effect

[ICED OUT!]

I am trying to figure out how to make a video look like a moving sketch or drawing-
can anyone help me out? Soert of like the old AH HA video-
thanks

Adam

 

[rook]

You can export video as an image sequence and then trace each frame, or apply a filter that suits your look, in photoshop and then re-import as a batch.

It's time intensive but can yield nice results.

-rook

 

[GenJerDan]

Got Paint Shop Pro? (OK, I guess, Photoshop would work, too... :grin: )

Spit out the film as individual frames, run a batch job which takes each frame and converts it to the look you want, then saves them out again.

Import those frames into your NLE, and there you go.

Not difficult, but time consuming... I just did this to a 4 minute piece and the conversion took 6 1/2 hours. The initial exporting of the frames took about as long, too. (Not a sketch, though...I turned it into a airbrushed look. Same principle, though.)

 

[GenJerDan]

Yeah. Like Rook said. :grin:

 

[ICED OUT!]

awesome!

thanks guys-

Adam

 

[David Jimerson]

You can do it in Vegas with bump maps and color curves.

 

[Hans Moleman]

how do you put the frames back into premiere cleanly?

 

[GenJerDan]

Just did this today. Not what you're talking about*, but the same principle.

Painted Butterfly

A 25 second WMV done with Paint Shop Pro X & the Virtual Painter plugin.

Oooh, pretty.

Dan

*I've never gotten a satisfactory output trying the sketch thing. If the scene has too much detail, it gets all messy.

 

[rook]

looks nice. I like the look of the background. The butterfly didn't have the same quality, though.

nice job.

-rook

 

[GenJerDan]

Well, the butterfly is pretty painted-looking to begin with. But I think it's mostly because of its size.

 

[rook]

I'm not sure the size was the problem. I've messed around with this too and I found there is always something in the frame that doesn't handle the filter the way everything else does.

I loved the way the background looked. Very cool, but the butterfly still felt too...real.

Maybe it was the motion. Mabe if you slowed the clip by 20%.

I don't know. Just spitballing.

You did a good job. Nice.

-rook

 

[GenJerDan]

I actually prefer the "contours" filter/effect when doing stuff like this, but the background is always too busy. But it looks very Yellow Submarine-ish. I'd put a sample of that version up, but it's like 10 MB for those 25 seconds.