infinity10 posted at 12:15AM Tue, 19 December 2017 - #4320514

Have you seen the offiial music videos for Hatsune Miku and other vocaloid personifications at Youtube Gaming Videos https://gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=SE6Tjc8yx6o These are sometimes semi-NPR, sometimes fully, and sometimes just cel-shaded but definitely 3D.

Not really a fan of 'moe'ish anime style. Is this the kind of style you want in your 2d illustration?

I would think that if you are using 3d assets from renderosity, there aren't many anime style models here to convert to 2d.

infinity10 posted at 10:52PM Mon, 18 December 2017 - #4320501

I dunno.... ClipStudioPaintEx has a push button item that converts photoreal graphics to Japanese Manga and Western Toon style. Poser has Sketch Rendering which creates NPR art as well. Cycles has NPR shaders devised by the Blender3D Cycles NPR community, but those do need some elbow grease. Any improvement to output would be welcomed by NPR art creators (me being one of them)

I realise there are already good shaders out there for converting to cartoony images.

But I have yet to see anything that can generate semi-realistic illustrations like the following without any artistic touches: https://i.imgur.com/lXyu4JI.jpg

I checked the shaders you mentioned me. But all of them have this telltale '3d' feels to it. What I'm trying to achieve is something that truly looks like hand-drawn illustration.