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On Artbeats.com: Cartoonification

Artbeats clip TEL130 from their Teen Life HD collection. It is the starting point for the remaining images. (If you subscribed to their newsletter, you got this clip free!)

Shading Steps

Shading Steps set to 2.1. (This is one of the most sensitive parameters, and is best at the lower end of its range.)

Shading Steps set to 2.5.

Shading Smoothness & Detail Threshold

Shading Smoothness set to 55. Lower settings give the Sunday Morning Funnies look.

Shading Smoothness set to 65. Settings between 60 and 70 are quite psychedelic.

Increasing Detail Threshold softens the result.

Edge Settings

The default edge settings are inelegant, in our opinion - especially when applied to standard definition footage (as we have here).

We prefer thinner, softer edge settings for standard definition footage. The result is more akin to a soft pencil.

Or, you could go to the other extreme, and increase the edge thickness (still with increased softness) to create a “magic marker” look.

Final Image

As mentioned on the previous page, we almost always follow Cartoon with color correction to get a more pleasing (or alien) result. We also tend to precede Cartoon with a Levels effect to alter the gray balance of the original clip before Cartoon processes it.

Again, the full tutorial may be downloaded fromArtbeats.

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