PASS (Poser Art Shaders)-Soft Pencil by perpetualrevision
Open full image in new tab Members remain the original copyright holder in all their materials here at Renderosity. Use of any of their material inconsistent with the terms and conditions set forth is prohibited and is considered an infringement of the copyrights of the respective holders unless specially stated otherwise.
Description
(Effect as rendered in Poser Pro 11 Firefly. Photoshop used only to composite two renders.)
I bought the PASS (Poser Art Shaders Set) "starter" pack from RuntimeDNA a few years ago, and if I'd played with them back then, I probably would've bought a few more before RuntimeDNA went out of business. But considering that I'm much more comfortable with Poser's Material Room now than I was back then, it's also possible I wouldn't have fully appreciated what these shaders are doing.
The "starter" pack comes with a sampler of shaders for four art effects: Halftone, Watercolor, Sketching, and Toon3Tone. I don't care for Halftone so didn't try that one, and I couldn't get good results from the Watercolor set. But I very much enjoyed playing around with the other two.
I set up a simple scene to test out the shaders, and then I applied them to each material zone on each of the items in the scene. Along the way I made various adjustments depending on what that mat zone needed, and I also added back in texture maps with details (like V4's face, for the eyebrows) as well as the hair's transparency maps (using image nodes already available in the shader tree for that purpose). I also added in a few custom textures.
The effects don't work in the Preview renderer (at least not the way I have Poser set up), and that made it tricky to figure out how to light the scene. But it rendered pretty quickly using Firefly, so I was able to do lots of test renders. It worked best with no IDL, no SSS, and no GC (b/c HSV tone mapping worked better).
The render shown here uses the "Soft Pencil" presets from the Sketching shaders. It's actually a composite of two Firefly renders, one with "toon outline" enabled (on "thin pen") and one without, so that I could control the outline blending in Photoshop.
The next render uses the Toon3Tone presets.
I don't think the PASS packs are available for sale anywhere any longer, but the vendor (Nightsong) is on Deviant Art: nightsongws.deviantart.com
==CREDITS==
PROPS: Bag Chair by LuxXeon; Plant by Esha; End Table by PoserWorld; Room by me
FIGURE: Sasha-16 version of V4 by Karina; LLF Penny Hair; TresChic TankTop by 4blueyes; Surfer Outfit Lycra Shorts by B25SB
For more credits, see: https://perpetualrevision.net/character-design-credits/
Comments (7)
uncollared
Fantastic work
rajib
Very nice pencil effect.
renecyberdoc
fantastic artwork.
jan_scrapper
Oh, this is nice!! Very well done!
perpetualrevision
Thanks to everyone for the comments!! I really like this pencil effect as well.
@jan_scrapper: If you decide to play with these shaders, I recommend giving yourself a big chunk of time to figure out what they're doing. I found it helpful to re-organize them on the Material panel so that I could more easily see what was influencing what. Once you "get" it, then it becomes fairly easy to figure out how to make your own changes, including using textures you wouldn't otherwise use for a regular render. For example, for the lower part of the bedroom wall, I added a JPG of pencil scratches into the PASS shader tree to create some variety.
However, I should note: it took me two full days of playing with the pencil shaders to finally get the render I wanted, so this probably isn't a method I'd use for, say, a comic!
Flint_Hawk
All your work was worth it! This looks great!
IceDragonArt
Excellent