Improved PosterPaint and New PaintByNumber
I recently figured out a way for us to improve the temporal coherence of PosterPaint. It involves selectively blending the original image back into the filter output in places where the original image was smoothest. This is a variation of the approach we use in Supersmart Blur, and it gives better results than our previous method of selectively blending PosterPaint output with a blurred version of itself. Our new method also works when used with PaintByNumber. PaintByNumber is a new effect we’ve developed that looks somewhat similar to PosterPaint, except the colors are more individually separated. Look for these enhancements to show up in future ToonIt releases.
Sample original video:
PosterPaint - Old method for temporal coherence correction:
PosterPaint - New method for temporal coherence correction:
PaintByNumber - Old method for temporal coherence correction:
PaintByNumber - New method for temporal coherence correction:
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