Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Build Custom Toon Material / Develop new Shader for Poser

digitani opened this issue on Oct 13, 2013 · 47 posts


digitani posted Tue, 29 October 2013 at 6:18 PM

ertherau, that comic tone looks great!  It really feels like what you would get from a print comic book or graphic novel, rather than a cartoon.  I don't have 2014, so I guess I'll just have to look forward to that.  I checked out your comic too.  Looks beautiful!

satria, those smooth toon renders look awesome!  I have been specifically going for cel-shading, but those smooth toon shaders create some beautiful results.  I'll have to look into that too.  I can't put my finger on what they are doing to make it look 2D, but still smooth.

I especially like the sci-fi room in a smooth toon shading.  In anime the backgrounds are typically painted with a lot of detail, since they only have to draw it once, and I have long been experimenting with different ways to replicate that sort of background with cel-shaded figures.  I recently came to the opinion that the background does not have to be toon shaded to work with cel-shaded foreground figures, as long as the lighting is not too realistic.  That smooth toon shading could make a great anime style background too, though.

Thanks so much for sharing.  Here is an image I recently produced as an experiment:

Cel-shade Aiko in Japanese Classroom

Also, I have a cel-shading gallery on my website.

Check out my website: http://www.digitani.com