Post-process Artistic Rendering

[Mark Davenport]

Hi,

We've created a process that transforms video into various artistic forms such as "Comic Book" and "Watercolour".

We're trying to gauge consumer reaction to this product so if you have a moment, could you check out http://igniartfx.com

[LigH.de]

Take On Me...
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P.S.: Which exceptional browser is able to play such videos?

Opera 12 (Presto): locks up the plugin protection
Vivaldi (Chrome): "no playable source"
Pale Moon 25.6 (Mozilla): "Error loading media: File could not be played"
Firefox 39.0: oooh, it does something... mostly waiting.

[Mark Davenport]

Take On Me...

Aha, yeah, that's a great video

[LigH.de]

My current opinion:

If it was the desired style from the beginning (like the first "Lord of the Rings" movie: half cartoon, half real silhouette), I would accept it. But altering existing movies in such a way ... I doubt I would enjoy that.

[Mark Davenport]

That's cool, those are the opinions we want to hear, thanks for viewing

[jagabo]

There's nothing new here. There are filters available for most video editors that do the same thing. See MSU Cartoonizer, for example.

http://compression.ru/video/cartoonizer/index_en.html

Effects like this may be useful as occasional special effects but nobody in their right mind would want to watch an entire movie with it.

[Mark Davenport]

I've personally tried the existing processes, including MSU, I find them, to me, jarring and sometimes incomplete or inconsistent.
How do you feel we compare?

[racer-x]

I agree with jagabo. Most editors have filters for these type of things. This is OK for a special effect, but I wouldn't use this. Here is an example of a neon effect.

[Mark Davenport]

That's great feedback thank you. If you have the time do add that information to the survey.

[LigH.de]

I fear that such effects will probably hurt the compressibility...

[Mark Davenport]

It can go slightly higher if you're using a quality scale but for a fixed bitrate it turns out okay.