About Red Giant ToonIt 2.1
Give video footage that sought-after cartoon look easily and quickly with unique algorithms to transform your image into beautiful cartoon shading and lines. Its five plug-ins free you from time-consuming techniques like rot scoping and hand painting and give precise control over styles, shading and outlines. Version 2 adds the Heat Vision plug-in (mimicking the look of the Predator movies), 14 new styles, new presets and faster output. It is a upgrade for Digital Anarchy ToonIt! 1.x or Red Giant ToonIt 1.1.
Red Giant ToonIt 2.1 Features
Add interest to ordinary images: Keep your toon'ed version as close to the original video as you'd like while adding strong visual interest. The ToonIt plug-ins preserves the sharp edges and color fields of the footage.
Powerful presets: ToonIt's cartooning algorithm is so smart and elegant that you will be able to use its default settings most of the time, and Version 2 contains more than 40 presets. The style options are easy to use and output is optimized, making your workflow fast and easy.
Believable cartoon effects: Other cartooning effects use posterization algorithms to create a quick-and-dirty cartoon effect. This doesn't create a believable look for the human form and face, and there tends to be a lot of jitter from frame to frame.
New Presets - Updated in v2: With new 40+ style presets for After Effects, FCP and Motion, getting great results is even easier in version 2. A reorganized interface and new controls grouped by style, give you more flexibility.
Style Choices - More in v2!: Choose from many cartoon styles, including Flat Cartoon, Graphic Novel, Comic Noir (b&w), Half-Tone (dots), Stipple, High Contrast, Poster Paint, Marker, and Gouache.
"Real" Cartoon Styles: The Roto Toon plug-in generates colorful flat shading, while the Outlines Only plug-in creates realistic line drawings.
More Outline Styles - New in v2: The Blacklight Edges plug-in makes your image look as if the edges have been placed under a blacklight, while the Goth Toon plug-in flattens the image for a high-contrast look.
New Blur option - New in v2: All ToonIt 2 plug-ins now have a new Supersmart Blur option, which uses blurring percentage, test radius, and blur radius to create a smooth but still detailed result that helps generate better output with less spurious lines and colored areas.
Heat Vision - New in v2: The new Heat Vision plug-in simulates infrared camera footage to easily mimic the look from the Predator movies.
Faster Rendering - New in v2: ToonIt 2 has been optimized for faster output, especially for HD source with 3-4x speed improvement across the board. Render options allow you to make the right tradeoffs between quality and render time.
Smooth Animation: Improvements in ToonIt create smooth cartoon-like output with very little jitter or you can choose styles with a lot of variation in the drawing style over time.