A digital cartoon or animation creation process, alternately describable as
digital rotoscoping. Images are obtained in digital format by set-up steps
(32, 44), image capture steps (34-36 and 46), and image storage (38, 48).
The rotoscoping process (10) includes an image to line art rendering
sub-process (14) which optionally may be followed by a specialized line
art rendering sub-process (16) or a coloring sub-process (18). The line
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A digital cartoon or animation creation process, alternately describable as
digital rotoscoping. Images are obtained in digital format by set-up steps
(32, 44), image capture steps (34-36 and 46), and image storage (38, 48).
The rotoscoping process (10) includes an image to line art rendering
sub-process (14) which optionally may be followed by a specialized line
art rendering sub-process (16) or a coloring sub-process (18). The line
art rendering sub-process (14) includes a series of filters, particularly
including a high-pass filter (68) using a gaussian blur convolution
matrix. The specialized rendering sub-process (16) has particular use for
carrying image regions having particularized detail through into final
images in a manner that such detail is not lost, and the coloring
sub-process (18) permits creation of colorized final images.
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