Today I thought I'd try something new. (Well, as I continue to immerse myself into Photoshop, EVERYTHING feels a little new to me) I love comic books and manga, especially and a few years ago I saw the director's cut of Walter Hill's THE WARRIORS and although the "comic book" look of the new version didn't meet with approval with older fans of the film, I was intrigued with the effect (I certainly have not thrown out my old Paramount DVD!), and I wanted to try it after seeing the effect used in various different ways. Film is were you would normally see this effect used and I have yet to see it in actual practice. But the types of imagery that can be created with this technique is very cool. So if one wanted to achieve a comic book or even a Pop Art feel, this is the technique to go with or try to do. For my image, I thought it really gave the image sort of a more 'playful' feel. I think this may not have been the best image to try this technique for the first because just getting the dogs isolated onto their own layer was tricky because of the fur on the outline of their bodies so when I did the stroke effect, it didn't look exactly right and needed a little clean-up and retouching at the end. I found that the best images were ones where the image would have more solid, firmer edges to which to create a better 'outline' and thus a better and nicer the rotoscope effect. Still, for my very first attempt at this technique, I don't think it came out all that badly.