Why not a cartoon video?

So this is what one of the interviewers said when I visited the local radio station here: “why not a cartoon video?” It was a passing remark when going over my video channel after the radio interview. Its something that this person, working with lots of creatives at the art academy in Den Haag, can easily say. But what if you’re just this guy in the attic? How to make a cartoon video? Not easy. This is how I got close to the result I was looking for with my video release for Perfect (Extended Remix).

A go to place is of course Fiverr. Here you can find animation artists and have your cartoon video in no time. There are actually animation sites that allow you to make your own animated video with stock figures and objects and I tried it. The first results where promising, but you need to go on a payed subscription to have maximum freedom. Even then you’ll find its mostly targeted towards business animations and infographics. A fun video clip animation is still hard to make. If you want you can try it: Animaker.

Eventually I stumbled upon this Video Cartoonizer. Its not free, but it seemed like it could do some pretty amazing stuff with “cartoonizing” existing video. You can see parts of the original video material here. Its quite funky and in many ways old fashioned software. It takes agonizing days to process video recordings like this, but the end result was quite amazing. Model Sara was also pretty pleased with the result. So there you have it. My first “cartoon” video.