Friday, 29 June 2007 | Levent OZLER
Digital Anarchy Releases ToonIt
Digital Anarchy, a leading provider of cost-effective special effects software for Adobe and Apple products, today announced the release of ToonIt! for Film/Video. ToonIt! 1.0 will reliably and easily create cartoon-like images from film and video footage, freeing artists from time consuming techniques such as hand painting and rotoscoping. The filters use advanced algorithms from Toonamation to create cartoon shading and lines in After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Motion and Premiere Pro.
Stan Schwartz, co-founder and President of Toonamation, said about their render engine, "Cartoons, whether full color images or line drawings, are a natural way for people to express themselves. Until now there hasn't been a high-quality way to create these effects that isn't very labor intensive. We're delighted to bring that capability to you, here, first, through the ToonIt! plugin and our partnership with Digital Anarchy."
With ToonIt!, users can easily customize the 'toon' effect for almost any footage in a variety of ways. There are four filters in the set. The Roto Toon filter creates flat shades of color and gives you full control over details like outlines, shading styles and halftone effects. The Outlines Only filter uses edge detection to produce cartoon-style edges, removing color altogether from the footage for a black-and-white comic-book style. Goth Toon makes use of internal color rotoscoping to create a high contrast effect, while Blacklight Edges' edge detection creates a fun, customizable set of neon-colored edges.
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