Tuesday, March 15

Cartoon Filter in After Effects






Experimenting in After Effects to get a distressed animated / comic look with the standard filters. I was trying to create a certain style for a series of short films I'd like to produce at some point. I used the built-in cartoon effect on two layers; bottom layer was for the wide strokes of color, no outline & the top layer i added the stroke, no fill.  I also lowered the fps to be more like traditional cartoons. Each layer's fps is also offset by 1 or 2 frames of each other; yields more of a sketchy feel and doesn't look "too perfect".

The footage is of some sloppy B-Roll I took in traffic while waiting on the train pass. Thought it was good enough to use for this, good for the color anyways. Pretty happy with the results.

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