“Cartoony’ plug in?

[Ebarfield]

You could try several of the Stylize effects (Effect/Stylize/…), in particular the Stylize/Find Edges. This is with After Effects Pro Edition, version 7.0. I think the regular edition has this one, too, though not sure.

“deja vu all over again” — Yogi Berra

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

There’s no plugin that really achieves this effect, though you can get some decent stuff out of AE using the posterize effect, and a few others. But it varies from shot to shot.

However, if you want a real flat cartoon look, and you have 50 minutes to kill, theres a 3-part video tutorial using AE and Illustarator CS2 in achieving this effect here at the cow:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/cartoon_look/index.html

Again, this method isn’t perfect, but I’ve gotten some cool results with it, and I get a lot of email from people who use it…

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[Brian Dugan]