| Alienskin produces some cool plug-ins for Photoshop and other graphic design programs. I have purchased a few of their products decided to drop in for a quick visit. SnapArt looked like fun, so I downloaded it for a test drive. I played with it for the better part of an afternoon and decided to post a few screen shots.
The filter applys natural media effects to images. It does a good enough job that I wondered if it might be useful to create background layouts for animation - from photographs or renderings of a 3D environment. Take a photo, apply some effects and presto! Instant painterly, sketchy, or cartoony style backgrounds and props for your budget Flash animation studio.
I downloaded an image from ImageAfter and played with a couple settings to give you an idea of what the tool can do. Lots more is possible with settings that include lighting, canvas texture, line width, styles and so on.
Here is the original image …
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Here are some variations (the last two include other quick Photoshop layer blending I tried - gradient map and a lineart only copy of the image produced by the SnapArt filter)
Click on the following image to see one of the option panels for one of the painterly styles (different options are available for different styles)
If you give it a try and come up with interesting settings, or other creative ways to use this and other tools to save time in your 2D and Flash animations please let me know.
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