How can I replicate this sketchy look?

[Activator]

I have a feeling that is "rotoscoped" animation hand-drawn from live action film/video. Look at the watercolor textures... they don't move with the action. The repetitive "wiggle" in the lines looks like they hand-drew the whole frame 3-4 times, looped it, and only animated the parts that actually move... her hands, mouth, card, etc., separately to save time/work.

You could probably get something going by importing video into Photoshop and using the "trace outlines" filter to "draw" the outlines, and then composite that over watercolor style backgrounds that are designed to fit in the areas you want colored...

Hopefully your client has a budget like I'm sure Nokia has for a project like this!! :-)

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[Per-Anders]

Or you could animate and model in 3d and use sketch & toon.

[BUZZFX]

I have a feeling that is "rotoscoped" animation hand-drawn from live action film/video. Look at the watercolor textures... they don't move with the action. The repetitive "wiggle" in the lines looks like they hand-drew the whole frame 3-4 times, looped it, and only animated the parts that actually move... her hands, mouth, card, etc., separately to save time/work.

You could probably get something going by importing video into Photoshop and using the "trace outlines" filter to "draw" the outlines, and then composite that over watercolor style backgrounds that are designed to fit in the areas you want colored...

Hopefully your client has a budget like I'm sure Nokia has for a project like this!! :-)--

Thanks Activator, Yeah, I also noticed the watercolor texture didn't move. I didn't know Photoshop could import video. That sounds like a possible idea that might work. So basically if i imported the video into Photoshop, hopefully it would import as an image sequence. Do you know if I can apply the "trace outlines" to the whole sequence of images at once? Then I would need to use a compositor like AE to add the watercolor effect beneath the lines right? :)

Thanks

Or you could animate and model in 3d and use sketch & toon.
Thanks Per, yes good idea, I thought of that but unfortunately my skills aren't to that level yet and the turnaround for this is pretty quick. Can Cinema 4D import video and then can S&T create the sketchy look straight from Video? I don't think so but I thought I'd ask :)

[tcastudios]

You'd be surprised how fast and effective Poser can create tooned film used as as background in it..... saved me on several deadlines.

Cheers
Lennart

[Activator]

I didn't know Photoshop could import video. That sounds like a possible idea that might work. So basically if i imported the video into Photoshop, hopefully it would import as an image sequence. Do you know if I can apply the "trace outlines" to the whole sequence of images at once? Then I would need to use a compositor like AE to add the watercolor effect beneath the lines right? :)

Yes, you can import an image sequence into Photoshop and work on it as if it was one file. The latest CS3 "Extended" version has very robust tools to work on video frames.

[danb]

Yes, you can import an image sequence into Photoshop and work on it as if it was one file. The latest CS3 "Extended" version has very robust tools to work on video frames.

Could you point me in the direction of tutorials on how to do this, please?

I have tried this before but did not get very far...

[DaveD]

That definitely looks like rotoscoping. Either hand drawn outlines over the video or perhaps there's some sort of After Effects plug-in that simulates that look with video? I'm almost certain there's an AE plug-in that provides that wiggly line look as I've seen a lot of that.

Notice what actually moves is fairly limited though. Lots of the background stuff very well may be 3D sketched with limited rotoscoped video on top. It may take some time but you could even use Illustrator to draw the outlines over the video frames. It'd take some time but once you had the outlined video segments you could composite the whole thing in AE.

[Activator]

Could you point me in the direction of tutorials on how to do this, please?

I have tried this before but did not get very far...

Here's the Adobe "Workshop" link. Just select Photoshop CS3 Extended and "Video Editing".

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/about.html

Here's a link to tutorials on using video in PS:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/designcenter/search.cfm?product=Photoshop&term=Photoshop&topic=Video+editing#target

Found this stuff with 2 clicks. Google is your friend! :)

Good luck!

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[PetrolUk]

You'd be surprised how fast and effective Poser can create tooned film used as as background in it..... saved me on several deadlines.

Cheers
Lennart

I agree, running an just an image sequence (as a bkg) through poser's sketch designer gets some great results. It's one of the best and most underated features in the software.

[Activator]

Sketch Designer sounds very interesting... the only documentation I can find is for using it to render 3D content. Does anyone have an example of running an image mapped video sequence through the sketch render process?

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[danb]

Here's the Adobe "Workshop" link. Just select Photoshop CS3 Extended and "Video Editing".

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/about.html

Here's a link to tutorials on using video in PS:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/designcenter/search.cfm?product=Photoshop&term=Photoshop&topic=Video+editing#target

Found this stuff with 2 clicks. Google is your friend! :)

Good luck!

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Awesome thanks! Yeah that Google is a nice guy. :) Forgot to ask him this time, for some reason. Heh.

[Ernest Burden]

I agree, running an just an image sequence (as a bkg) through poser's sketch designer gets some great results. It's one of the best and most underated features in the software.

I had done some experiments with that many years ago, it worked well, at least on stills. I had forgotten about it, so thanks for the reminder.

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