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Turn Real Life Into A Cartoon

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the video-toasting dept.

Saige writes "Ever wanted to see yourself in a cartoon? Before now, there were means to turn a single image into something cartoon-like, but some folks at Microsoft Research have come up with a method to turn a video into an animated cartoon. It's not up to doing it fully automated, as you have to hand-mark various parts of the video every 10 to 15 frames, but the video of the results is quite impressive."

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  1. Wow. Wow. Just wow. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    "quite impressive" and Microsoft and not in a negative way on Slashdot.

    That's it, good night folks, I've seen it all.

    1. Re:Wow. Wow. Just wow. by Alsee · · Score: 2, Funny

      Exactly. We just don't like their business practice of treating their customers as cartioon characters to be manipulated. As for their released software, this one will probably get you rooted if you scan in a video with someone in the background holding a peice of paper with the word "virus" printed on it.

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  2. Freudian Slip by BrynM · · Score: 5, Funny
    Opps...

    "However, even the 300 frame video of the girl swinging on the money bars only needs a keyframe every 10 or 15 frames."

    I just hope they don't make it part of Wordart or something.

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    1. Re:Freudian Slip by shigelojoe · · Score: 3, Funny

      BSOD is history

      Technically, but that's just because they changed it to a delightful shade of indigo. Now it's a DSOISOD.

    2. Re:Freudian Slip by reezle · · Score: 3, Funny

      All I can say to this is:

      http://sbnsor.com/funny/macowner.mpg

  3. Mickey Mouse... by wviperw · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always knew Microsoft was a Mickey Mouse corporation.

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  4. Pixar envy by paiute · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bill's kid comes home crying. Seems his little schoolchum's dad Steve has a hip movie studio that makes way cool animated features. Why can't you do that, Dad? I want an animation studio! I want it right now! So Daddy Bill picks up the phone and commands that Megacorp also begin work on animation. Unfortunately, Megacorp's work ends up looking a lot like old Clutch Cargo episodes. Bill's kid cries himself to sleep.

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    1. Re:Pixar envy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      "Cool animated features?" I wouldn't refer to "Finding Nemo," "Monsters Inc," or "Toy Story" as particularly "cool." Honestly, I think I've taken shits that were more interesting to watch for two goddamned hours. And I hate those "interview with Pixar" crap where some tool is like, "We spent eighty billion dollars per second to use all this processor time that could have gone towards curing cancer so we could make a movie about some goddamned useless fish and THAT MAKES US HEROES or something!"

  5. Already a cartoon by introverted · · Score: 5, Funny

    My life is already quite cartoonishly silly. The only way software could make it more so would be to automatically drop an anvil on me as I fell off a cliff like Wylie Coyote.

  6. real life? by sgtron · · Score: 1, Funny

    My real life is like a cartoon already. A badly drawn cartoon.. but a cartoon none the less.

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  7. Physics Engine for cartoons... by argent · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll be most impressed when they have a Cartoon Physics Engine.

  8. A cartoon from Microsoft? by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: 2, Funny

    Didn't we already this back in 1994?

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  9. Hasn't this already been done? by Beryllium+Sphere(tm) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I used to work at a place where some sort of technique was applied to turn the work environment into a Dilbert episode.

  10. I'm not bad... by drinkypoo · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm just drawn that way.

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  11. SP2 BAD, MS Cartoons GOOD? by aardwolf204 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait, I dont get it...

    SP2 and its funky TCP/IP stack BAD
    MS Research Cartoon Videos GOOD

    Am I on the right slashdot? I just read an article about how SCO is good and everyone loves them. Whats next, slashdotters start Reading TFAs? I'm so confused, all this talk about lana swinging on the monkey bars, wheres the cowboyneal option when I need it.

    I'll just pretend that MS bought this from another company and is going to integrate it into longhorn in order to keep the competition out, yeah thats it, back to writing it M$ for me.

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  12. /. Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What better way to /. Microsoft than linking to page with a video.

    The only problem with this is that most people don't go to the linked pages, and the video is a .wmv

  13. What do you mean, turn it into a cartoon? by foxtrot · · Score: 2, Funny

    Real Life is already a cartoon!

  14. Not Already a cartoon by twitter · · Score: 1, Funny
    My life is already quite cartoonishly silly.

    Just do something "newsworthy" and watch what M$NBC does to it. Coyote was a genius.

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  15. O great.... by thegoogler · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now i have to put up with DIGITAL cosplayers, "hey look, i edited myself to look like some anime character" i'm going to LOVE this....

  16. So does this mean... by AvantLegion · · Score: 5, Funny
    ... that all porn can potentially be converted to hentai?

  17. Re:Cohen, remember the guy? by zozzi · · Score: 2, Funny
    He even received SIGGRAPH award for his work

    What's this like? I've only ever received SIGKILL, SIGTERM, SIGINT....

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  18. Re:Similar to Waking Life... by ILL+Clinton · · Score: 2, Funny
    300 frames is 10 seconds. User draws every 10 or 15 frames. 300 divided by 15 (help me out, I'm an animator not a mathemetician,) that's about 40 drawings? That can become quite time consuming (and boring to an non-animator.)

    But here's my favorite part of the article...

    "I hope there will be a time when people will be able to use this for their home videos. But at the moment it's not a one click process," said Cohen.

    Wait a minute! Isn't that patented by Amazon!

    ILL Clinton Live Machinima Show, August 28th, NYC.

  19. Got it.... by mseeger · · Score: 4, Funny
    Ever wanted to see yourself in a cartoon?

    Not again, thanks! I already found it here.

    Regards, Martin

  20. Next up by g0bshiTe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Homemade Hentai anime.

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