Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Eureka!? (Toon Renders)

ju8nkm9l opened this issue on Jun 25, 2005 ยท 13 posts


mateo_sancarlos posted Sat, 25 June 2005 at 1:31 PM

The good news: I think your render is attractive and decorative, very nice-looking, without reference to any conventional or commercial style. It can stand on its own style if need be. The bad news: if we try to compare it to conventional or commercially-popular styles, it doesn't compare well. The figure's skin is too washed-out to see if good color zones were developed. However, the shading doesn't look adequate, and the colour zones look very machine-generated and uneven, compared to commercial anime film style. Snowsultan's z-toon technique flattens the figure, thus largely eliminating the possibility of depth and color-shading without precise and non-intuitive postwork. Perhaps "D-toon" is analogous to that, but I don't use D|S, so I don't know. Most of the lines don't show any trace of human intervention, so I guess that is the big area where postwork is needed. You'd want to redo them all so they're smooth and professional-looking. Learning how to do the inking on these things may be the hardest part of it. If "D-toon" is similar to "z-toon" (flattening the figure in the Poser z-direction, using an invisible parent prop), then that leads to a monotone cartoon effect, which is good for Sunday comics or old-style American comic books, but not good for anime. Add to that the heavily-textured apparel, and it's an entirely different look compared to anime style.