Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: What are your thoughts on toons in Poser and would you use them?

Teyon opened this issue on Jul 24, 2012 ยท 61 posts


monkeycloud posted Tue, 24 July 2012 at 5:45 AM

I reckon if they were good enough... I'd be more tempted to get them and do some toon renders...

...and I reckon yours look great Teyon.

But as Vilters notes, stylistic consistency becomes more of a problem potentially...

(unrelated image really... americanised anime source, as opposed to toon... but this example of stylistic rupture, witnessed when I was a kid, always stands out in my mind)

...the whole toon universe needs to match up somehow... there needs to be a range of figures... but also environments potentially... unless you can design them to work with (e.g.) Stonemason or Dreamland Models sets. Of course there's no reason you couldn't do that, somehow.

That said, I've heard folk say they'd never combine the Daz Gen4 figures with Miki or Antonia, because there is stylistic difference and they won't gel.

Personally, I don't see that... and I've done a few renders with a real mix of all the above in them... and I thought those worked out fine.

There's the issue of trying to personalise much more stylized toon figures too I guess, if that's a concern... you'd have to think through how that would work?

I'm a big fan of AlDemps toon work myself... I reckon he get's the meshing of toon and potentially more "realist" elements down very well.

Plus he does a lot of Doctor Who stuff... 😉