More comic book stylings...

Ryan's showed us a way of comic-book-ifying our narrative footage using Photoshop and then using the batch edit function to do whole sequences. Here's an example I did (in about 5 minutes) to show what it should look like...

Lee Mead before comic-bookification:

Aaaaand after:

Angelie

Cartoonisation...

Max found a really good cartoonising plug-in for After Effects and we tested it out yesterday. It looks pretty good, and it would be loads simpler and less time consuming than the Photoshop way doing comic book images.

We'll upload the test cartoonising to YouTube in the next couple of days :)

Angelie

More Lichtenstein style images

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Angelie

Sky High

So the other day, a Disney superhero film by the name of 'Sky High' came on one of the movie channels in India. While I was watching it, I noticed that the beginning and end both had a comic strip, like we plan to have in our music video. So, I thought I'd quickly post something about it. If you watch the beginning of this clip, you'll see what I mean:



Obviously our comic strip section probably won't look quite as good/advanced as this one, but still...

Angelie

James McAvoy - Lichtenstein Style

Well, he seemed like a good subject... for me anyway! :P

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Overall, I'm quite pleased with that really! It doesn't look exactly like him, but it's relatively similar. And I think as a comic type image, it works quite well. This one's about a million times better than an earlier attempt I did and it didn't really take as long either...

Opinions?

Angelie

Turning photos into comics...

Right well, I've spent about 3 hours trying to turn a photo into a Lichtenstein style image (using the tutorial posted previously) and I'm nowhere near finished yet. Also, it looks really poo. That's probably got a lot to do with the fact that this is a first attempt, but still...

So I'm wondering, is it really worth all the time and effort if it's not even going to be that good anyway??

I'll continue to practice when I'm in India anyway though, since there won't be anything exciting going on over there most of the time...

Oh and I'll post the line art/dot thing that I've done a bit later :)

Angelie

Just an experiment...

I thought I'd just test out that "line art" thing that's talked about in the link in my last post... it took a couple of hours, but it looks alright... well, apart from her eyes (they look a bit scary). But with practice it could look okay maybe..??

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Opinions? If it's rubbish, feel free to say so - I won't take offence!

Angelie

Photoshop tutorial: Lichtenstein style images

I found this tutorial for how you can use Photoshop to turn your photographs into Lichtenstein comic-style images...

http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-popart.html

Using these techniques, we could maybe take our own still shots of Jennifer in costume and then edit them so they are in the same style as the above picture. This could make things a bit easier for us, since it would mean that we wouldn't have to spend hours searching through Wonder Woman or Supergirl comics trying to find the right parts in the comic strip, and then editing those to change our superheroine's ethnicity... instead, we could just make our own. It would probably be quite long for us to do and maybe won't look quite as effective as if we used a real comic, but I think it's something worth bearing in mind...

Angelie