AmbientShade posted at 8:45AM Sun, 15 October 2017 - #4315901

RorrKonn posted at 2:53PM Thu, 12 October 2017 - #4285078

You can't get computers to get a DC,Marvel,etc etc inked look ,So Don't bother trying. Just find some cool look with filters. don't worry about inked look at all.

ZBrush matcaps get pretty close, if not indistinguishable, from retro style comics to the more modern looks.

Some examples using a set of free comic shaders in zbrush: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odajX0JmB6I

Search youtube for a host of other methods for getting line art and cell shaded rendering from zbrush and other packages, even DS and Poser. Black Sun Comics does a pretty nice job using DS and photoshop.

Should also be noted, Marvel and DC have been using 3D models in a number of their titles for years now.

It's the 'realism' renders you don't see a whole lot of in the comic world cause they just don't seem to be as appealing to a wide audience as the more traditional line art work. Except when it comes to the adult comics, then that's a bit different. But if it's done well, and it's not obvious you're using one of the stock figures in the work then it might gain traction. I just see a whole lot of poser-rendered amateur comics online where it's extremely obvious which figures are being used. A lot of them don't even bother morphing V4 or M4 to look like someone other than V4 or M4, even using their default textures. But when its done well, you often can't tell if the line art was drawn by hand or rendered from a 3D model.

There are several options in Poser. I used the Superfly render and layered it with the comic book shader in preview mode