Online vectorization tool

[Kweepa]

http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/

It's a free service where you upload an image (photo or illustration, noisy or clean) and follow a few steps and it emails back a vectorized version of your image. Seems to do a spiffy job.

Here's an example that shows how it can make anti-aliasing sprites easy. You could upload a sprite sheet and let it do the hard work - then just touch it up after.

[ambientcoffeecup]

I've used this before but for much bigger pieces of work, and photos. It's an amazing tool don't get me wrong but the example you provided? I think the original looked a lot better. The vectorized version just looks like Photoshop Gaussian Blur was added or something.

[Kweepa]

I agree that the head and hands are over-smoothed. I like what it did with the arms, legs and torso. Anyway, it was just an example.

[Firestorm1]

just an example?  an example will either get someone hooked or just make them ignore it.  i might check this out later.  if i can be bothered.

[Snarky]

Hey, that's a really cool app! I can see myself using it to make "high-res" printable versions of web cartoons etc.

[Dualnames]

Actually it's what you want it for.. I'll give it a try Steve..