Hi Stephen,

This is a process I've also used. Did you know that you can automate the process using Bridge? If you save an Illustrator Live Paint preset, then select the image sequence in Bridge and go to Tools > Illustrator > Live Trace.

You can also set up Actions to do something similar which adds the option of tweaking while processing.

cheers,

Angie

On 3 Oct 2012, at 23:14, Stephen van Vuuren wrote:

If you have a lot of time but not a lot of money, it’s not the same visual effect as Charles Schwaub – but vectoring a still frame in Adobe Illustrator can give a unique look vs. the cartoon look plugins I’ve seen . Once you create a preset for a single frame, you can apply to all frames. Note that Illustrator is not easily automatable, but still, it would be far less time that rotoscoping and probably do a nice job for mid 4 figures.  However, that look may not been what you want. And it will require cleanup work due to the unpredictability.

 

Further caveat – I’ve only experimented this a number of year ago, so YMMV.

 

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