Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: help needed for comic appearance

Calseeor opened this issue on Feb 20, 2002 ยท 9 posts

Calseeor posted Wed, 20 February 2002 at 5:55 AM

Hello all, Sorry if you see this in two forums, I just want to expand my chance of help. :) I was wondering if anyone knew of a good paint program or plugin/filter that would allow mt images to take on an anime look, or a cartoon cell look? I use Vue 4 and Poser 4 for my current art work. Is there anything anyone knows of that works with those programs? For paint programs, I currently only own Aura2 for lightwave (I also own lightwave and know it has a good cell shader plug in, but I can not use lightwave yet...its a bit over my head). Basically, I am looking to make a digital comic but do not want the standard poser or vue look/feel. I want a more cartoonish style, something on the idea of typical anime. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, --Eryk

VirtualSite posted Wed, 20 February 2002 at 9:14 AM

Sounds like you're gonna have to rotoscope this. Software may be a wondrous thing, but it can't draw something automatically like this.

jaybutton posted Wed, 20 February 2002 at 9:28 AM

If you are working with still images rather than animations, a simple trick is to take the image into Photoshop and use the Poster Edges filter. =) Jay


ronknights posted Wed, 20 February 2002 at 10:04 AM

Kind of like this.

Calseeor posted Wed, 20 February 2002 at 11:42 AM

Ronknights, yes, something like that. Maybe a bit brighter colors, but ys...that is the type of thing I am looking for. How did you achieve it?

ronknights posted Wed, 20 February 2002 at 11:52 AM

OH, please call me Ron. All my Renderosity friends do! I saw the message just before mine, talking about the Poster Edges Filter in PhotoShop. I remembered I'd done this picture with that effect. So I posted the image. I just used the default setting since I didn't know what I was doing. People liked the way it looked in my gallery, so I kept it that way. Here's another one that is lighter. Ron

ronknights posted Wed, 20 February 2002 at 11:58 AM

Oh, what the heck. I may as well share this one I just did. You're talking about comics? Well here is my very own comic character. His name is Marlin Fingle. He's in his "super hero suit now." It's all done just for laughs. Ron

Calseeor posted Wed, 20 February 2002 at 12:49 PM

LOL. Great character!!! These effects are what I am looking for. Thanks to your hint, I have found some cool filters in my paint programs that should do this. Thank you!!

ronknights posted Wed, 20 February 2002 at 1:12 PM

You're most welcome. I ran across that filter when I was fumbling about. Maybe I'll really know what I'm doing one day! Ron