As I mentioned on my twitter, we’re looking for photo and video evangelists to help us market and license our tech to photo-sharing, video-sharing, internet TV, social-networking, and photo after-market sites. Lisa and I will be looking to hook up with people for that purpose, among others, at Podcamp Philly, running from Sept. 7th to 9th. Expecting general networking goodness to ensue.
Steve Garfield of Vlog Soup interviewed Lan Bui about how he made his picture video of ComicCon 2007, including his reaction to my subsequently converting it to a toon video using Toonamation rototooning. The interview is posted at (click image):
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FYI, I rendered the ComicCon toon video with a software testbed that I experiment with to create new effects. So I didn’t exactly use ToonIt!, but the effects and settings I used are all currently available there, meaning anyone with ToonIt! could have done the same thing.
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I’m here for the second day of NPAR 2007, a Siggraph preconference on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering. Yesterday I heard a talk by Henry Kang called “Coherent Line Drawing.” BTW, I met him after, plus his partner, Seungyong Lee, and they’re both nice guys and smart. Anyway they were talking about their research to produce an effect which looked somewhat similar to Toonamation’s comic outlines. I think our approach produces results which are naturally more aesthetic, and, of course, I’m totally impartial. AFAIK, they haven’t tried applying their algorithm to video. If/when they do, I’m guessing they could improve their results by applying bilateral filtering to input images before constructing their edge tangent flow field (image processing geek speak). I probably have bilateral filtering on the brain, because I’m taking a Siggraph course about it tomorrow morning, plus they were generous in sharing their results. They’re friendly rivals who don’t have a plugin yet.
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As part of a “CHANGE MY PHOTO into POP ART Competition” in the Flickr Pop Art group, I changed this:
into this:
using the default comic setting.
Texas artist Kevin Cherry liked the Lichtenstein look of my toon and in turn integrated it into a hand-assembled mixed media collage:
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Photograph of the real to artistic digital manipulation to art in the real. Very cool!!!
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I created this cartoon picture video of ComicCon 2007 using one pass of Toonamation rototooning (default hard edge setting for online video).
It was adapted from an original picture video by Lan Bui with his kind permission.
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