Creating a cartoon effect

[Leekao]

This is what I get:

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toon -m 1 -g 5 -b 5 -S 10 -s 200 pNgAaeB.jpg pNgAaeB_toon_m1_g5_b5_S10_s200.jpg

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Wow, that's pretty sweet, I'm going to try it.

[snibgo]

... 30fps and I'm running all the frames through imagemagick to make em cartoonish and then playing them in 30fps ...

So, you want to capture, process and display video? Ffmpeg or Avisynth would seem more logical choices for tools.

[Leekao]

... 30fps and I'm running all the frames through imagemagick to make em cartoonish and then playing them in 30fps ...

So, you want to capture, process and display video? Ffmpeg or Avisynth would seem more logical choices for tools.

Yeah, I guess that would be reasonable, but I do not know how to apply these effects on ffmpeg or avisynth and I know a little imagemagick so I used the tool I know.
can you maybe recommend some articles on how to accomplish smthing like this on ffmpeg or avisynth?

[snibgo]

Sorry, I don't know of any good "how-to" pages for ffmpeg. In particular, the filters and how they can interact, with examples.

At one time, I considered writing a series of "snibgo's ffmpeg pages", but never got around to it.

Most of my video work uses IM, but it doesn't process in real-time.

[Leekao]

This is what I get:

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toon -m 1 -g 5 -b 5 -S 10 -s 200 pNgAaeB.jpg pNgAaeB_toon_m1_g5_b5_S10_s200.jpg

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Wow, that's pretty sweet, I'm going to try it.

The living room and the cats look awesome, but faces are really distorted.

[fmw42]

try lowering the smoothing -S to get more detail

toon -m 1 -g 5 -b 5 -S 1 -s 200 pNgAaeB.jpg pNgAaeB_toon_m1_g5_b5_S1_s200.jpg

[Leekao]

try lowering the smoothing -S to get more detail

toon -m 1 -g 5 -b 5 -S 1 -s 200 pNgAaeB.jpg pNgAaeB_toon_m1_g5_b5_S1_s200.jpg

It's really nice but the faces still distorted/

[fmw42]

Sorry, nothing can be done about that. It is the detail in your face that is brought out by the cartoon script. After all, it is a "cartoon" and things are expected to look unreal. You can smooth more, but you did not like that one either.

[snibgo]

@Leekao: You might be interested in my "Cartoon and texture" page, though the methods take more time.

One cartoon result, with no added lines, is:

With added lines:

[fmw42]

Here is the result from using the online editor at http://pho.to/