Comic book look

I'm trying to figure out how to give a comic book look to some of my footage. I'm NOT trying to do the cartoon effect seen on TV for some financial company, but the look of a comic book.
I've applied the half tone filter to one layer which gives me the print look. I've applied a layer above that and have been working with every filter I can think of but I'm just not getting what I want. I've tried vectorizing, reducing the number of colors, boosting levels . . .on and on.
Can anybody help me narrow this down? In addition to all of the standard Motion/FCP filters, I've also got Boris Continuum Complete 4.
(BTW, I know that FX Factory Pro has an excellent Comic Book plug in, but I don't have the $$$$$$ to buy that software at this point.)

Thanks for the info, Les.
According to the review, the filter DOES work in Motion as well as FCP. Looking at the demos on the Digital Anarchy site, I'm quite impressed by the quality and flexibility of this plugin.
However, there are two things that make me hesitant . . .
1) According to the review, the plugin is painstakingly slow. PAINSTAKINGLY!
2) At $299, this is out of my price range as an amateur.
If you can look past those two items, this DOES seem to be a high quality product.
For now, I'm getting some very good results with Patrick's plugin . . .the more I experiment, the better quality I'm getting.

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The commercials on TV, for SCHWAB, employ the same technique used in WAKING LIFE and SCANNER DARKLY, is done with proprietary software, not a plugin for any editing application. TAKE ON ME was animated traditionally...WAAAAAAY back in the late 80's, when non-linear editing on computers didn't really exist.
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4001306&#4001306
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http://www.illustratortechniques.com/imitating-a-scanner-darkly.html
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Thank you for your response... but I've already thought about my clothes' color or background color or even light... if it's too bright or too dim... but nothing seems to fix the bad effect... I've tried bright light, not so bright, incandescent, fluorescent, light colored clothes, dark clothes! nothing helps, I've repaired permissions, I think I've even "uninstalled" photobooth and then got it back from the CD... it is just defective... I kinda hate this cause comic book effect is one of my favorites!... I wish someone else could help... I know I'm not the only one with this kind of prob cause I read this very same problem on yahoo answers...

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Afternoon, I am a graphic novel writer & comic designer.
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When I use the Comic book effect in Photo Booth, the black lines turn white in the saved image.
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Thank you for your response... but I've already thought about my clothes' color or background color or even light... if it's too bright or too dim... but nothing seems to fix the bad effect... I've tried bright light, not so bright, incandescent, fluorescent, light colored clothes, dark clothes! nothing helps, I've repaired permissions, I think I've even "uninstalled" photobooth and then got it back from the CD... it is just defective... I kinda hate this cause comic book effect is one of my favorites!... I wish someone else could help... I know I'm not the only one with this kind of prob cause I read this very same problem on yahoo answers...

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