Hi,

Just wondering.. does anyone know how to render in poser 6 like images from a comic book page (just like the ones seen at the curious labs site).

Just tried and tried but did not succeed.

I attached an image..

TIA

Message edited on: 05/06/2005 14:49

It depends on what you're asking. If you're trying to assemble panels into a page, you should render each panel in Poser and bring them together in an image editing program such as Photoshop or PaintshopPro or Painter. One tip is to render an image with more background space than you expect to use so that you can crop the image in different ways. In other words, don't try to tightly crop in Poser.

My visual indexes of Poser content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon

This example is actually 6 different renders assembled in a photoshop like program.

The page layout can be any format that fits with your visual story telling style.

Is that what you were asking?

-J.

They look like standard Poser renders to me. They don't look like heavily inked comic book panels. To look like the CL items, just take a Poser render and photoshop it using one of dozens of filters, like "posterize" or "poster edges" or many others. Then fade the effect back to about 30 or 40%.

That's one of Brian Haberlin's pages. He doesn't use Poser to do his renders, from what I recall, he just uses Poser for figure set-up. I believe he renders in 3D Studio MAX. You could always ask him, though -- he's a member here.

I googled alot to find some answers or directions. What i realy would like, is a way to get the same rseult in making these. The way Curious Labs displays Brians (very nice and beautiful) comic book pages, they suggest that you could make them with Poser 6. I think thats not the case. And you should do A LOT of postwork in Photoshop. Hopefully someone corrects me if i am wrong. But I guess Poser is not able to make these. And if Brian renders in 3DS why suggest it is made with Poser... TIA again

A good way to get the graphic novel/comic book look in your renders is to use the "Z-Flatten" python script that you can get in the freestuff.

Heck, Poser is a tool just like any other program. When you combine Poser's abilities with other programs, it's power tends to increase. I've done Poser comics before that look incredible with little or no postwork. In many cases, it is the artist, not neccessarily the tool that makes a good piece of art. Poser is a great tool for creating 3d digital comics, I can attest to that myself. Curious Labs is not mis-representing themselves. You just need to realize that in digital art there are very few silver bullet, 1 app solutions.

Take a look at http://www.powerheroes.com Poser used to set up the figure, P4 & Mil2 depending on the book, Bryne to do the Renders

I agree - just do your renders and composite in Photoshop. With a little planning to can "break out" of panels and everything if you want to. Here's my comic, and I do just that: http://www.exodus.virtualgeneration.co.uk