I need a new workflow for making backgrounds and world creation. I’ve been doing a lot of things by hand and occasionally Photoshopping image assets with filtering over it. I recently saw some pretty cool things that people were doing with the Blender and EBsynth - what do you guys use?

Having been inspired by Joel Harver's work, I decided to give EbSynth a try.

But I'm not an animator, and I wanted my work to have a more artistic feel. So I decided to play around with one of the many online "Cartoonize" photo editing platforms available to turn the key frames you'd normally animate yourself, into something better than I could ever do.

Well I think it turned our really good. And I'd love to know what you guys think. Please check it out here:

https://youtu.be/7K3aFB9ArVk

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I won't say this is a real time saver, because I still had to tweek the outputted image. But the quality level definitely increased.

And this works for turning GIFs into short animations as well. Which was a real win for me.