2DPaint DigiPaint changes your video into animation drawn with a pencil imitating handicraft. Plug-in allows you to imitate a black-and-white pencil sketch as well as a color picture.

Features: 2DPaint DigiPaint is a plug-in to Adobe After Effects. It changes video clips into animation drawn with a pencil imitating painting and sketches. Painting mode gives the typical look of a watercolor painting. This can be in complete color. The sketch Plug-in allows you to imitate a black-and-white pencil sketch. The effects give you a feel of quite a realistic artistic work. The user spends very little effort to create the same. The interface is quite intuitive. Settings can be saved for future use as presets.

If you are to learn animation, this could be a useful learning tool. You are able to study the animation created out of a video clip and then study the same to determine what gives the output animation the look of an animation. The sketch mode would let you study the same effect when one tries to create a cartoon character out of a pet dog for example. All you have to do is use a video clip of the dog and get the sketch mode animation out. The same program can help with TV promotional materials and presentations.

Overall: Quite nice effects and simplicity of its use makes this quite a good package to use for business as well as entertainment use.