SnowSultan opened this issue on Jul 23, 2003 ยท 16 posts
SnowSultan posted Wed, 23 July 2003 at 12:45 PM
Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/tut.ez?Form.ViewPages=319
OK, I finally got around to finishing the updated Z-toon tutorial that I mentioned last week. Very sorry about the delay, I just can't find time to get everything done that I'd like to. :) I don't think I made any errors, but if you find something wrong, let me know and I'll fix it as soon as possible. I hope this improved tutorial will help you to make Z-toons even faster and better than before! :) Thanks for your time, take care. SnowSmy DeviantArt page: http://snowsultan.deviantart.com/
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kobaltkween posted Wed, 23 July 2003 at 12:52 PM
let me be the first to say thank you very much!
c1rcle posted Wed, 23 July 2003 at 1:33 PM
I'll second that :) Thanks SnowS, not sure what we'd do without you :)
stewer posted Wed, 23 July 2003 at 2:01 PM
Attached Link: my toon shading tut
Thanks for the tutorial (and for giving ockham and me credit). For creating outlines, you can use Photoshop (or similar) to extract outlines from a Z-buffer or normal image with an edge detection filter. You can get a Z-buffer image using the depth cue mode or you can get colored normals with special Poser 5 materials. Depending on the filter you use, you can get outlines with varying thickness. I attached the link to my toon shading mini-tutorial, you should be able to use the outlining part with z-toons as well.
darken666 posted Wed, 23 July 2003 at 2:48 PM
Thanks for updating the tutorial! Looks great, and Ztooning is becoming my favorite poser technique.
Insom_Nia posted Wed, 23 July 2003 at 4:10 PM
smoochies for Snowsultan, stewer and ockham. Thank you so much! (I wonder if that technique wouldn't be a good challenge theme...)
Veritas777 posted Wed, 23 July 2003 at 8:18 PM
Z-Tooning has become my favorite illustration method. I am getting excellent commercial art quality renders using it.
Marque posted Wed, 23 July 2003 at 8:22 PM
Nothing like having folks willing to share ideas. Thanks! Marque
lhiannan posted Wed, 23 July 2003 at 10:18 PM
Wonderful! :)
MegaJar posted Thu, 24 July 2003 at 12:40 AM
"Cameras? We don't need no stinkin' cameras!" LOL ;-) AWESOME update to an already-awesome tutorial! ^_^
Spit posted Thu, 24 July 2003 at 4:48 AM
Incredible insight and work, SnowSultan. You've changed the way a lot of us are approaching Poser now. Quite a paradigm shift. Major!
Rosemaryr posted Thu, 24 July 2003 at 10:15 AM
In one of the steps, you mention "Remove unwanted hightlights". I probably missed the discussion/thread where this was elaborated on, so:
Just what was done for this step? Are you in Poser5? Are you selecting specific parts in the list and removing a reflective quality (..Material room?)? Or in P4, and playing with the materials assigned to said parts?
As I said, I probably missed this point when it first came up, so I'm likely backtracking....Thanks in advance!
darken666 posted Thu, 24 July 2003 at 11:14 AM
pretty much the same thing. In Poser 5 remove specular material and turn highlight to black, also remove any reflection maps. Pretty much the same in poser 4. At least that's how I read it.
c1rcle posted Thu, 24 July 2003 at 1:28 PM
meant to say thanks to stewer & ockham also :) Thanks to the three of you :)
Spit posted Thu, 24 July 2003 at 7:55 PM
Oh yes, me too! The balls/boxes made such a big difference! And don't try to take the .py script out of my hands!
Rosemaryr posted Thu, 24 July 2003 at 10:46 PM
Thanks, darken666. Just haven't had time to test everything yet...