An effect I want to try.

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 12:57 pm

At this moment I only have Windows Movie Maker 2.1 and GIMP 2.0 at my disposal. Is there a way I could take an anime clip and duplicate this effect:

Obviously, I don't want to duplicate the complete effect sequence of swirling lines forming the outline of the character. I want to know how to achieve creating outlines of the characters with a solid background color and a solid outline color.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 1:44 pm

http://www.amvwiki.org/index.php/Sketch is a good starting point. You can render the AVISynth output to a file and import it into your video editor.

If you want extreme manual control you can try Inkscape :)

Keeper of Hellfire · Post by **Keeper of Hellfire** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 2:58 pm

Or if you don't use AviSynth, in Gimp the Function Filters/Find Edges can do the same. Try the different ones, to see which fits best.

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 4:15 pm

Keeper of Hellfire wrote:Or if you don't use AviSynth, in Gimp the Function Filters/Find Edges can do the same. Try the different ones, to see which fits best.

AVS has the large advantage of not forcing you to do it frame-by-frame.

risk one · Post by **risk one** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 5:34 pm

Kalium wrote:
Keeper of Hellfire wrote:Or if you don't use AviSynth, in Gimp the Function Filters/Find Edges can do the same. Try the different ones, to see which fits best.
AVS has the large advantage of not forcing you to do it frame-by-frame.

I'm sure the Gimp has some way to perform a series of actions on a set of images (I know Photoshop does). That way you can just export as bitmaps in vdub, apply the effect, and import as bitmaps in vdub again. It's still more work than AVS, but certainly nothing like rotoscoping.

bum · Post by **bum** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:50 pm

You might also need to perform some sort of colour filter on the image, as was probably the case with your example.

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 7:06 pm

yay youre hooked.

Keeper of Hellfire · Post by **Keeper of Hellfire** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:37 am

Kalium wrote:AVS has the large advantage of not forcing you to do it frame-by-frame.

While it is true, doing it frame by frame has it's advantages too. You have more control over the result. You can change the filter settings for every frame to get the best results, erase unwanted lines, add missing ones, thicken ones that are too thin and so on.

And as I said, not everyone uses AviSynth. I got rid of it as fast as I had installed it, because after installing it the playback of video files was broke. And even if AviSynth develops and this problem may be fixed, the use of it has it's pro and cons. And at the moment the cons for me have more weight than the pros.