From the course: Learning Boris Continuum 2020

Art Looks effects

From the course: Learning Boris Continuum 2020

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Art Looks effects

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- [Instructor] We'll start our conversation on Boris Continuum effects by looking at Art Looks effects. And Art Looks are designed to replicate Physical Art Media. I have Project One-One open. And this has an image sequence of a model at a window. I have two copies of that sequence in this composition. We'll apply separate effects to each and use blending modes to combine them. Let's start with the top layer. Effect, Art Looks, you can see these replicated wide range of art. Let's start with Pencil Sketch. And here it adds pencil like lines at the edges through edge detection wherever you have high contrast. Now as with all Boris Effects, you can go to the Effects browser to look at presets, and this is a great place to start. I'll click that button, and here are presets top left. And click through these and see what they look like. So let's start with Rough Sketch. Once you have your preset, click Apply. That looks pretty nice. Let's start by adjusting the width of the line. Increase line width to three, a bit thicker. There are also styles in lines, here's light, medium, and heavy. Heavy is the cleanest it has the fewest lines. I can further adjust that by changing the line threshold. Higher value, fewer lines, lower value down to zero more lines, looks pretty nice. Now with Boris Effects, you can combine the result with the original footage by changing the mix with original. However, in this case, I'll leave this set to zero and go through the Blending Mode of this layer. We'll change that menu to Multiply. That combines the pencil sketch and the original footage. Let's try a different effect on the lower layer. Select that Effect, Art Looks and this time let's try Watercolor. And this gives you a limited color look with jaggy edges between colors. It's a bit dark so let's lower the paint mix. Let's try 30 and then we can give it an additional boost through White Boost, 50. Now we can see that this effect also adds its own lines. Let's get rid of those though by once again, increasing the line threshold. To be safe I'll go all the way up to 50. The number of colors you have is based on the cartoon levels. If you lower it, they'll be more cartoony. Here's three. If you raise it will be smoother, more like watercolor. Let's try 10. We can also make the jaggedness go away and be a bit better blended, few raises often. Let's try 30. With any of these type of effects, it's probably a good idea to play it back. Because of edge detection, there might be line fluctuation or line wiggle. Let's give it a try. Before I do that, I can take a few steps as a precaution. I can turn on Temporal Smoothing to reduce the jitter and both effects have this. Here's just a checkbox. Now I'll play it back. There we go. A small amount of fluctuation near the hair where it's blowing in the wind, overall looks very stable. So there are several Art Looks Effects. Feel free to experiment with those effects and their settings to get a wide range of unique results.

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