Hello everyone - I'm new here.

 What I'm looking to do is create some animations with characters that look like anime. I came across this: http://artzone.daz3d.com/wiki/doku.php/pub/tutorials/poser/poser-misc04

Which is the exact effect I'm looking for.. but it's from 2004 and I have Poser 7, and can't seem to mimic that effect.

 I'm using Aiko3.

 I was also wondering.. I want my environment in my scenes with these characters to have the same effect. Say.. an amazon jungle. Is that possible?

 Any and all information would be much appreciated. Links to tutorials, tips.. tricks.. anything.

Thanks!

 Hi well I only do stills, but I use olivier's art materials from rdna in combo with semidieu's shaderworks, also from rdna.  If I want jungle I can render this in vue and use it as a background image in poser or import the poser person, keeping the poser shaders into vue for a tooned look. Love esther

If you're talking about doing anime-style animations, you can use the Preview renderer in Poser 7 to get a similar result, but not spot-on. If you step up to Poser's Firefly renderer, you can use Olivier's shaders, or you can use the built-in toon shader node in Poser's materials room. I've used both, and depending on the look I'm going for, I may use one or the other. If I'm looking for a simple two-step cel shade, then Poser's toon shader is more than adequate. If I need a multi-step celshade, or a celshade look with specialized highlights, then I'll use Olivier's shaders. It's a lot easier to learn how to use the built-in toon shader.

I would also suggest that you look at doing multi-pass rendering and compositing the results in a program like After Effects or the open-source Jahshaka.  This will allow you more control over how to blend your characters with a jungle that might be created in Vue or a simple still image.

Also, if you are rendering cel-shaded animations in Poser, make sure that you use only a single light and that its shadows are set to "raytrace". The shadow-mapping in Poser can cause "crawling shadows" if animated.

Thanks for the replies guys. This information will definitely be a big help when I'm ready to render.

Attached Link: Oblivion

I've done animations with Olivier's shader and it doesn't look realistic the link edges aren't consistence. It's a tough one the stills will look great but what do you use for animation here a link to a Youtube post I did with Olivier's shader you can see what I mean, hope it still works. Oblivion  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RsCKEVYyDI