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Drawing into Reality


hershy314

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Started with a image of a 1936 Ford Coupe, I used a few adjustments to get it to look like a pencil sketch. I selected the second-4th or 5th layer and merged them. Added a mask to that layer and used a black/white gradient and well this is the result.

drawingreality.jpg
 
very nice concept sort of reminds me of a technique used in animation where it starts out as line drawings and over time it turns into a full hd photo realistic animation.

However I would maybe like to see more of a transition between sketch and real as I had to look twice to see what was going on
 
hershy314 said:
Maybe if I use a black-grey-white gradient or something?
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No.

First point. I agree with Hoogle. In your version there is very little difference between the real car and an illustrated/drawn version.

Second point. Your transition between the two needs to be shortened slightly by moving the color midpoint adjuster more towards the darker value of the gradient, then make a shorter drag line when you create the gradient on the mask. This makes the transition happen quicker.

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The video is very cool Andrew! It would look good a GIF as well.
 
I agree with Hoogle here, I think the difference needs to be more pronounced.

When I first landed on the image I thought it was just a photo that had been over-shopped, and it took me a second to realize the drawing-to-reality transition.

Personally, I don't think the transition needs to be particularly sudden, but I'd make it more pronounced by accentuating the drawn look, like in IamSam's version, where it's just a line sketch.

This way you could transition that into your effect, and then finally into the original photo. This would make it a softer transition, making the transformation look more natural, but the effect would be more obvious as the starting/end points would be so distinct from one another.

Another cool idea could be to start the drawn side as a blueprint, where you knock out some of the background details and implement a grid,ruler markings etc... and then move from this much flatter state to the realistic part of the image where the car will seem to be almost lifting off the page by comparison.

Nice work though, I'm interested to see where you can take this.
 
Thanks Hershy!

I love the style here, but I'd be interested to see it as a more gradual transition, instead of the sharp diagonal line. If you were able to smoothly and gradually transition from the starting point on the left to the realistic photo on the right that would be awesome.
 
Also you seem to have lost the mid point, where it's half handdrawn, half realistic photo. Right now the mid section just looks like a bit of noise has been added, whereas before I think you had more of a balance between the two extremes.
 
I'm really liking the effect on the car. I'd make the background transition more gradual too though. Perhaps if some of the background elements could be done in a handdrawn style, then these drawn lines could taper off into the paper side.
 
The technique is very simple, here is a short tutorial on it. Sorry for the horrible music (it was royalty free). I actually recorded this myself. I tried to go slow enough for people to follow along. http://youtu.be/LMTIfVVSYOA

This is just one technique there are a couple others, but this is the one that stuck in my head.
 
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