How to make a traditional cartoon texture effect in after effects?

[Joseph W. bourke]

While there are ways to get close to the look using a plugin such as Red Giant ToonIt:

https://www.redgiant.com/products/all/toonit/

…this appears to have been done by shooting or capturing the reference video, then rotoscoping with pencil and markers (or possibly in Photoshop with the appropriate brushes), frame by frame, then editing the project, adding VO and music. There’s no simple, one click solution – it’s a lot of work.

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Todd Kopriva]

Joe is correct, and I’m not suggesting that the Cartoon effect is adequate by itself in all cases, but you can get a result that is similar (and maybe good enough for your current needs) using the Cartoon effect.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Joey Trimmer]

It seems to me that these these are mostly hand drawn elements and animated using a looping turbulent displace effect so that the lines wiggle between frames.

There is also a texture that looks like it loops on top of everything. Maybe a fractal noise could help with that or create these in photoshop and overlay them on top of your footage.

[James Mayo]

Hi Joseph!

Thanks for your reply! 🙂
Actually before i post my query here, i exported the video first in jpeg seq then edit each photo in photoshop. Now i have to do a lot of work! 🙂

thanks so much guys!! 🙂

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