Hi,
Just saw a render by DUO that uses a neat little proggy called 'INTOCARTOON' available for free evaluation here.

http://www.intocartoon.com/

Not too expensive either @ $29.90

If you want to see the effect, checkout Duo's TOON SHADER TEST in the Bryce Gallery.
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1608453

I'm hoping Duo will come in here and give us the low-down. ;-)

Here I am! :) as I've said in the comments of my recent artwork post named "TOON SHADER test", one of my customers ask me for some illustrations with a toon shading. I've make some experiment in Photoshop in order to cartoonizing my artwork. There are many Photoshop action tutorials on the web and I've tried them all, adding also my Photoshop experiece, without obtaining the right result.   After a short search on the net I've find this proggy named "intocartoon" designed for conversion of photos into cartoon-like pictures. Because the prog is thinked only to achive a "cartoon effect" I find it very good, with results and control of the effect much more better than Photoshop and in a shorter time. Anyway it work more or less like a Photoshop plugin and I'm asking why they don't make it as a Photoshop plugin. The only faut of "intocartoon": is a little slow on render and it have also some difficult to manage big files... but it works!

I've also try to process in Photoshop another of my "intocartoon" test images (see the image in attachment) using some cartonizing Photoship action... the final result is interesting!

Neat program will have to look into it.

On a side note...... I  notice, people talking about someone and mentioning their name and than all of a sudden the person shows up... how does that happen?

Analog-X: If you are talking about this thread, I site-mailed Duo and asked him if he would do a small piece about his work and he was kind enough to oblige, hence what you see here. ;-)

Quote - Analog-X: If you are talking about this thread, I site-mailed Duo and asked him if he would do a small piece about his work and he was kind enough to oblige, hence what you see here. ;-)

And here I thought, you used some kind of Telepathy!! :)

Nah! We Coords only use telepathy for the really important stuff !

Looking at the tutorials for this program, I got the following idea. using Photoshop and a couple of default filters, and a bit of tweaking for each filter.

Hrm, I keep forgetting about the site mail since RD moved to this new look. It's been a month ago since I remembered about it and had like.. a bunch of mails from ppl. Sorry all!

Quote - Looking at the tutorials for this program, I got the following idea. using Photoshop and a couple of default filters, and a bit of tweaking for each filter.

Yes, but as you can see the "quest for cartoonizing" is not only on outlining in black the figure, but is also to obtain "flat" colors... ;)

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Yes, but as you can see the "quest for cartoonizing" is not only on outlining in black the figure, but is also to obtain "flat" colors... ;)

So I have too much detail.. I'll give it another shot later....6:00AM and I'm off to work.