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:
Also, I have a cel-shading gallery on my website.
Check out my website: http://www.digitani.com