"When you go down to the Tooniverse today, you better look the part.."

Decided to see what I could do with the old toonerising hand given all this extra knowhow I've accumulated since April 2015 when I did the original (posted at https://www.weasyl.com/submission/1344704/hand-gets-toonified-no-sound for comparison)

DRY TECHNICAL EXPLANATION FOLLOWS.

The pipeline was fully open-source = Blender, Krita and VirtualDub. No cracked After Effects or Photshop required. Yay!

The hand was photographed in front of a greenscreen and rigged up with an armature in the usual way. The cartoon glove is a 3D model sourced from Blendswap - http://www.blendswap.com/blends/view/76821 (CC-BY marnoulle). I rounded out the fingers and put the three classic cartoon slits on the back of the glove.

I tweaked the 2015 animation so the silhouette and movement of the hand matched the glove a lot more closely. The transition between the hand and glove is a cross-fade with some jittering. I was going to try morphing but matching the movement meant a cross-fade worked just fine.

After the first composite was done I decided it looked a bit dull so I brought the frame sequence into Krita and added some hand-drawn magical lightning stuff. I composited the lighting back over the footage in Blender - apparently the trick to getting cheesy 1980s optical-print effects is to render the effects on a black background then Add during composite instead of mixing with an alpha. Now you know!

Animated the background reacting to the glove fwoomph as a last-minute thing. Krita again. Yay.