I'm a total newbie, so I'm sure this idea is not original, but I stumbled on this technique for getting a flatter toon-like look for a Poser render.

Using your favorite image editor:

• Step 1: Turn you Poser toon render into a greyscale image.
• Step 2: Posterize the greyscale (I like 4 levels)
• Step 3: By hand using the color replacer tool, replace each of the four shades of grey with a color from a fixed limited palette of colors. I keep my palette as an open image that I can grab colors from as I need them.

Of course you use different colors for a given grey depending on whether it's skin or clothing or hair, etc. SO each grey might become any one of several different colors in different parts of the image. But with the color replacer it goes really quickly.

With this technique you don't get those awful colors you get when you posterize a color image, AND you get to use precisely the colors you want for a given piece of work, giving you a unified palette.

I'd love to hear about other, more experienced people's tooning techniques.

Cool.

You may also use the material room if you have a non-Debut version of Poser. Use the light node, Diffuse, Toon sub node. Plug into Alternate diffuse. And render with toon line selected. But the latter gives a lot of random black speckles inthe final image, which is annoying. Cheers.

Eternal Hobbyist

 

infinity10 posted at 10:57PM Sun, 20 September 2015 - #4229700

Cool.

You may also use the material room if you have a non-Debut version of Poser. Use the light node, Diffuse, Toon sub node. Plug into Alternate diffuse. And render with toon line selected. But the latter gives a lot of random black speckles inthe final image, which is annoying. Cheers.

I haven't figured out the materials stuff yet. I have Poser Pro 2014. So far, though the toon renders I've gotten from Poser are not the style I'm looking for for my first hobby project. I might end up going full black and white for my first project anyway. Haven't decided yet.