Adding a cartoon / picture effect?

[Hardcoreruss]

Morning,

Wonder if anybody can help me.

I am looking to add an intro similar to the beginning of the film Snatch. Where they take a frame of film, freeze it and make it look like a drawn picture.

I have seen lots of people do this on Youtube so there must be a program which does it. Can anybody point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

Russ

[AlanHK]

Google "cartoonize"

Lots of sites that do this online.

[Hardcoreruss]

They only do one picture though, I want to play the video stop it, cartoon one frame, then switch back to the video.

Youtube Snatch intro and you will see what I mean.

[redwudz]

MSU's cartoonizer is one for video: http://compression.ru/video/cartoonizer/index_en.html
For stills, Photoshop has a bunch of 'artistic' filters than can do that. Maybe one like 'charcoal' or 'chalk' or similar. Probably similar filters for freeware graphics programs.

[guns1inger]

http://compression.ru/video/cartoonizer/index_en.html is a simple Vdub filter. With curves you could restrict the effect to a single frame.

However for something like the Snatch credits, you would export the frame you wanted as a still image, load it into photoshop, mask it, adjust the curves, de-saturate and hue adjust it, then edit it back in as needed.

[AlanHK]

They only do one picture though, I want to play the video stop it, cartoon one frame, then switch back to the video.

So? You only need to cartoonize one frame.

Screencap, cartoonize, splice back in.

[guns1inger]

If you watch the Snatch video, and any video that does this type of effect, it shows on the screen for far longer than a single frame. So when you put it back, you need to be able to do so in a way that allows you to set a duration for that clip.

[Hardcoreruss]

Thanks all, will give it a try when I get home.

[lordsmurf]

Sounds like russ is doing some cool projects, after what appears to be a long hiatus from the hobby. Hey man, good luck on them all.

[AlanHK]

If you watch the Snatch video, and any video that does this type of effect, it shows on the screen for far longer than a single frame. So when you put it back, you need to be able to do so in a way that allows you to set a duration for that clip.

Well, freezeframe. The point is you only need to apply the effect once.

Easy enough to put all this into an Avisynth script.