I’ve done a new sequence plugin: cartoon
which will convert a strip to a cartooney look…
http://www.cs.umn.edu/~mein/blender/plugins
Let me know if you have any suggestions…
Well what does it do flatten and boost the colors ?
It’s a good idea, say, for preparing an image to
use on the web or a sequence before exporting to Flash.
…but I screwed about with it for 5 minutes using
targas and jpegs as input and couldn’t get anything
useful… even after looking at the source for
hints.
Any hints then for an old man with too little time on his hands? 
Before I go back to imageMagik or pyMagic or suchlike…
The thumbnail shows an example…
For another one heres an image before and after.
Right now there isn’t a heck of alot you can do to tweak
it to get better results. Its more based on the image
you put into it. The more things going on in the image
the less likely your results will be nice.
You can opt to boost or not boost the colors, and flatten
it as you stated other than that your pretty much at its mercy currently 
Wooo! thats a sweet effect dude!!!
thanx for the example. It confirms what I got with my test strips.
I guess what I didn’t like is the high frequency stuff - the colored
dots in the background and the black wrinkles on the babies face.
Would an additional blur get rid of these?
I would test this myself but the blur.dll that I have
systematically crashes Blender (2.14 - 2.27)
Windows 98/Win2k.
As someone asked recently in another post,
as guardian of all that is and has been blender plugins,
you wouldn’t have a blur.dll that works say with
2.23 + Win2k +Nvidia GF 2?
Then again perhaps you could add an appropriate blur in the plugin?