Moving Painting

[Tl Westgate]

Sounds easy enough. Just corner pin the video to a frame.

I guessing there must be more to this, though.

— TL

[Beau Merchant]

Sorry I should have been clearer.

It’s going to be a flat on movie and I was wondering more about the grain and texture. How to make the video look like it was painted.

Thanks

[Frank Thomas]

My plugin of choice for this sort of effect is ToonIt, from Digital Anarchy.

[William J. meyer]

Hi.

This is less about the painting look and more about the texture.

After you have affected the footage, I would suggest adding a fabric layer on top with a transfer mode set to Overlay to give the “painted video” the notion it exists on a canvas of some kind. You can adjust the opacity or use other transfer modes depending on your tastes (Multiply and Overlay work best for me).

Image*After has some free fabric textures that might help:

https://www.imageafter.com/category.php?category=fabrics

If you choose one with color, you may want to either desaturate it or apply a Tint filter with the default black and white settings, unless you want the fabric layer’s color to affect your video. Also, playing with the fabric layer’s Curves and Contrast can control the density of the texture.

Textures scanned from Illuminated Manuscripts also wield interesting results.

take care,
-william