Sep 20 2008
How To Get Big Studio Special Effects on a Shoestring Studio Budget
Do you want to look like Pixar without spending millions? Here’s a neat effect you can do for free.
You’ve probably seen TV commercials or films where live actors appear to be cartoons. It’s a fun effect, and can even be quite artistic in the right hands. A 2007 Sundance Festival selection, Year of the Fish, employed this technique brilliantly.
NewBlueFX is offering Cartoonr, a plug-in for Vegas, Movie Studio, Adobe Premiere and other video editors, as a free download. It will give live action clips a cartoon-like appearance.
The short clip below, starring Janelle Elms of OSI RockStars, demonstrates the before and after look of Cartoonr. It took me less than 3 minutes to create it. The effect can be customized to alter the thickness of the lines, the paint-like appearance, etc. I just used the defaults to show what it can do straight out of the box. This clip was shot with a Sony camcorder – but you can achieve the same results with your Flip videos. How many ways can you imagine to use something like this in your marketing campaigns?
(And If you don’t already have Sony Movie Studio, keep an eye out for rebates. We’ve alerted readers of this blog to some great offers on Movie Studio and Vegas in the past. When I hear of new offers, I’ll post them.)
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