how do you Cartoon-ize video

[loveturtleozark]

how do you turn video into cartoons
what filters are there
Premere or Virtual Dub?
say I want to shoot footage and make a comedy cartoon after I have captured then what?
I want the large amounts of solid colors found in cartoons-I am convinced that my wife would look just like Belle in B&B
If there are no filters that do this are there some good ones for photos and what would I need software wise?

[BJ_M]

you can do this in Softimage XSI (Softimage Toon Shader and Kaydara's Cartoon renderer) , Shake (w/ saphire plug ins) , eyeon Fusion with the 5D plug-ins, toon shader (several for maya) in maya , and a few others..
(the above options will set you back about $10,000 - $15,000) , nanomation (uk) is working on a cartoon renderer also, (shake and fusion are the best choices with the mentioned plug-ins).

also you can achieve the same result in other apps maybe (havnt tried it) , reducing number of colors mostly wouldnt work as it would cause severe banding. (to bad you dont have a SGI as there are some apps for IRIX that do this real nice on a SGI.

but you can get somewhat the same effect (minus the black outline) in tmpgenc or vdub..

use the smoothing filter (noise filter) and pass the video through a couple of times with the filter set to max or near max .. i would pass it through twice min. (don't encode to mpeg on the first pass with tmpgenc - save it out as avi again) , to get the effect you want you may have to play also with the colours (increase saturation greatly) ...

good luck !