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[s_hopkins]

hey everyone. im writing and animating a cartoon, still in the writing stage. and i have a question for you all.

is there any possible way to get the same look that you see here in the background (the soft retro painted look) without paitning the background.

http://www.animationalley.com/images/an ... ASTMAN.jpg

i mean is there a way i can illustrate my backgrounds then filter with photoshop?

thank you for any help
shawn

[kilz2latex]

you could paint in soft colors with ps, and for the lines you could use a brush that comes to a point at the end of your stroke.

[dflynn]

theres probably some gigantic list of filters that could be applied to give a similar effect, I'd think something along the lines of drawing in a basic effect you want, and then some blurring of some sort, and i'm not really sure, experiment