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Author Topic: software to convert photos to anime/manga style images Matthew Bailey Master Film Handler Posts: 461 From: Port Arthur,TX Registered: Sep 2000 posted 03-17-2004 06:19 PM                     Does anyone know of software that converts photos to anime/manga style images?  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-17-2004 07:41 PM                        It's called an "artist". They draw with their own hands!  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-18-2004 10:25 AM                     Send your photo to Japan. For about $0.12 an hour, a nice little girl will turn it into anime for you. =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 03-18-2004 11:31 AM                        Actually one shouldn't have to go that far. The various graphic styles that are popular in anime and manga are currently very popular on college campuses all over. Matthew might only need visit a local college art program or anime club (these days virtually every college campus in the US has an anime club) to find young (i.e. inexperienced and therefore inexpensive) but nonetheless talented people that can do this kind of work. BTW Houston is the home of AD Vision Films, the largest licensor and importer of anime programs in the US. They got their start at a local anime club frequented by the geeks from NASA's Johnson Space Center. Quite a cottage industry has grown up in the Houston area supporting production, post-production, and DVD authoring for anime titles.  |  IP: Logged Stewart Anderson Expert Film Handler Posts: 105 From: Sandy, Utah /United States of America Registered: Aug 2003 posted 03-18-2004 11:35 AM                        You should be able find free-ware on the Internet. Look up GIF software on Google or Yahoo. And if you find anything that you need to pay for just download it on KaZaa  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-18-2004 01:02 PM                     If you have Photoshop you should be able to approximate the look of a cartoon drawing from a photo. Let's say you posterize the original picture down to about 8 colors then apply a "Median" filter to the image. You'll smooth the color tones down into areas of more or less contiguous color. Next, you make another layer fromt he background and apply a "Trace Edges" filter. Use "Threshold" to make that layer one color (B/W) and adjust it's complexity. Overlay that on the main image and adjust the transparency till you have what you want. I'm not the greatest Photoshop artist in the world but I think you get my idea. I'm sure some other people out there can do a better job than I did. At least this will get you in the ballpark.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 10-27-2004 05:24 PM                        Try here: I Am Anime.com For a nominal fee their artists will create an anime caricature from your submitted photos.  |  IP: Logged Jennifer Pan THE JEN! Posts: 1219 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: Nov 2003 posted 10-28-2004 07:18 PM                        (Color to sketch) Find a picture you would like to make a sketch out of and then open it in photoshop. Now go to Image>Adjustments>Desaturate. Then go to Filter>Stylize>Find Edges. Now press ctrl+L to bring up your levels dialog box and adjust the levels to suit you. (TIP: To give your sketch a lighter apearance adjust the output levels in your levels dialog box). Then I would erase any lines I didn't want. Also, try the (Filter) >> Artistic >> Cutout, and adjecting it to your liking.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-28-2004 11:33 PM                     I agree with Joe's judgment. If you want a "manga" or "anime" (or fannie mae or whatever) version of a photo you'll have to draw it yourself or have someone do it for you. Filters on photos will not produce the desired effect. Why? Check the proportions of anatomy on such cartoon characters. Body shapes and sizes are very exaggerated, moreso than most American drawn comic books. The characters have eyes the size of dinner plates and noses so small you wonder how they can breathe, especially when many of the female characters lack any nostrils. The look is not based on reality. So if you want to copy the look you have to draw it. There are books out there on the market which actually describe a lot of common steps in making manga characters.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 10-30-2004 09:33 PM                       How to Draw Manga  |  IP: Logged

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