Is it just me or does the list of new features in the upcoming Toon Boom Studio v4 seem to be catch up items from AS5? "...animate bitmap images or photographs." "In addition to the standard round dot, Studio 4 now offers a series of different brushes to create a multitude of line sty...

I checked out ShapeShop on the weekend and its an interesting program. It is a sketch based procedural modeller that is kind of fun and has a lot of promise. There is also a new dedicated website http://www.shapeshop3d.com/index.html which was set up in July 07, In preparation for the release of Sha...

There's also the Cartoonizer plugin for VirtualDub http://www.compression.ru/video/cartoon ... ex_en.html

it sometimes gives interesting results...

The author, Kelly Murdock, also wrote Poser 7 Revealed: The efrontier Official Guide , which I purchased. It is basically just a printed version of the user manual, with some additional content. Handy if you like something in hardcopy. I suspect that this will be along similar lines... Although hope...

touchdown wrote:Does anyone know of a good freeware app that can approximate the effects of "Rotoshop"?

There is a very early version (0.1) of a freeware rotoscope program available at: http://www.toonyphotos.com/

Unfortunately it's a linux only app at the moment...