[Gabe Strong]

Thanks guys! You are both right. I am trying to fix those very things and having a hard time. I read the Aharon Rabinowitz tutorial, that’s what inspired me to see what I could do in After Effects without going into Illustrator CS2, I thought there may be some people out there without Illustrator CS2 who had After Effects and I was trying to see if I could work out something those people could do.. (I actually worked through Aharon’s tutorial and it worked great for me!,)

I used Tinderbox’s etch filter for the lines. You can use find edges, but the etch filter has parameters you can adjust to make the lines thicker (pen pressure) unlike the find edges filter. The only problem is, that when I up the pen pressure to thicken the lines……that’s when I get the “dirty” stuff around the eyes, nose, and mouth. I’m trying to see if I can clone or something to fix it

The detail part should be able to be fixed pretty easily. I ran a smoothing filter and a posterize filter on the lower layer. I think either turning the posterize filter’s color’s sampled number down, or turning up the smoothing filter should get rid of some detail.

Again, thanks for the input and suggestions!!!!

Gabe Strong
G-Force Productions
http://www.gforcevideo.com