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  • Calling all genuises!!!!

    Posted by Tomsmall on April 13, 2005 at 8:48 pm

    Ive got this awesome idea but yet again im having trouble making it become reality. I am having titles write on screen and i want to have a hand with a pencil writing them on. I have made green screen footage of the hand writing the titles and i have animated to titles. heres the twist…i want to make the hand look like it was hand drawn, or as close to as possible. anyone have any ideas. im open to anything.
    Thanks

    Tom

    Yoondo replied 21 years ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  • X-claim

    April 13, 2005 at 10:23 pm

    this is probably not the most efficient way of doing it, but i did something like this awhile ago.
    The way i did it was to export a targa sequence at (x)fps(i used 25fps, but it is up to you, the higher the frame rate the more work for you). i then imported these into p.shop and traced the edges with a textured brush, discarded the original footage layer then reimported the frames. you end up with a shaky line drawing which can be as detailed as you wish.
    Another option could be to do the same but use the filters inside of photoshop, ie a cutout filter with a crosshatch or similar overthat?
    not sure what exactly you want it to look like as there are many different styles of ‘hand drawing’?
    hope this helped in some way, but i am sure that there is a plugin that could help achieve this look, cos i am certainly not a genius!

    Hayden
    New Zealand

  • Mike Clasby

    April 13, 2005 at 11:08 pm

    If you’re going to take a Photo Sequence (or Filmstrip, .flm, my fav) into PhotoShop, you might want to search Adobe Exchange. Lots of good actions shared there. Check out the “most popular” and “Highest Rated” for sketch or drawing actions, some are pretty good.

    https://share.studio.adobe.com/Default.asp

  • Yoondo

    April 14, 2005 at 2:56 am

    Try Imaage control>colorama to make your hand like it was drawn.

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