Non-photorealistic Renders (NPR)
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Shannon Maer is his name.
Here's his youtube channel. Well worth watching...https://www.youtube.com/user/shannonbgfx
Brian Haberlin is another artist worth watching. He creates graphic novels and uses Poser Pro 2014 to create his comic book look...
Black Sun Cohttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd8YOdIhSc1IKrrJV5K7ccQmics is also worth looking at. Kevin uses DAZ Studio to produce his comics...
I picked up Dolly today and had to play with her a little bit. I had fun getting this today.
Simply adorable! I like the sketchy effects you're using here. Kind of reminds me of Betty Boop.
Brian is a fantastic artist who uses both tradition pencil/pen/ink, as well as a wide array of digital tools to create his comics. He updated to Poser 11 when it came out, and has offered a lot of useful tutorials and webinars on how he uses Poser and ZBrush to create stunning artwork on books like Faster Than Light, which is published by Image Comics.
If you are interested in his techniques, I have written a detailed tutorial on his approach to using Poser to create comics. It can be found at my (100% work safe w/no ads) blog: Noir Style Tutorial
Some Samples of work I created using Brian's techniques. The first image is a very early attempt at using this style with the P4 Man (aka The Dork), the second is a more complex attempt featuring Victoria 4 and some custom morphs.
i definitely disagree with you on the changes between Poser 2014 and Poser 11. The addition of the Comic Book Preview is a big change. It uses OpenGL to generate images that have geometric lines with a thickness that can be customized for each material type. In other words, you can have think lines for skin and thick lines for metal equipment. This offers an instant variety over the type of lines that you can get with a traditional Toon rendering. If you're interested in learning more about this, I cover it extensively in my Noir Style Tutorial (available at my work safe blog).
FAIR WARNING regarding FBX import: A lot of people are having trouble with it and say that 2014 works better than 11.
Poser 11.1 seems to focus primarily on upgrading its animation capabilties. Since this is not something I work with often, I probably won't spend much time commenting on these new features. At least not yet.
Very cool... I like this!!!
Wow...nice renders... AND very kind of you to post a link to your tutorial.... I will beheading that way shortly.... Again many thanks...
Thanks, MM. I really like how it turned out and I even remembered to save my settings so I might be able to replicate it in the future. I think it has a nice vintage feel to it. I didn't think about Betty Boop! But, yeah, it does kind of remind me of her. Gotta love Betty. She has always been one of my favorites.
Thank you! :)
I did this a couple of years ago. I was going for an illustrated Christmas card look...Daz Studio (posed the dog and exported as an obj), Hexagon (I modeled snowman), UV Mapper Classic (snowman textures) Photoshop (color correction and adjustments, snowman textures),and Artrage (I painted in the girl, crows, falling snow flakes, snow on trees, foot prints). Rendered in Vue Complete..
Very nice.
This is a very nice, classic illustration. Nice work on the snow and the paw prints. Dog's face is a little dark, but that's really a minor point. Love the painting effects on the snowman. The addition of yellow adds a nice touch of warmth to the illustration. The looks exactly like the sort of Christmas card I buy each year.
I want to offer a short correction to something you wrote above about Poser 11. The 2 Tone and 3 Tone options are a property of the Cartoon (aka "Toon") view, not the Comic Book Preview. Even though they are grouped together under the same menu (I guess they had to put them somewhere, so they are all under Display > Cartoon Settings), they are not the same thing.
The Comic Book Preview can be combined with all the different display settings, including wireframe and smooth textured. Using the Geometric Edge Feature with smooth texture can yield amazing results that give you complete control over you colors. In the image above I show where the on-screen control is located.
I go into detail about this in this section of my Noir Tutorial: https://mikemitchellonline.blogspot.com/2017/07/noir-style-tutorial-pt-7-step-2-turn-on.html
In fact, I almost never use the Comic Book Preview with the Toon View because it can knock out detailed textures and it is too limiting when it comes to combining the look with colors.
I spent lunch hour today on your blog, got to part 12. Very delightful blog with lots of good information. I will return tomorrow during lunch at work...
Awesome (and thanks for the comment). Looking forward to seeing what you create next. And, if you have any questions or there is someplace I'm not clear, please let me know.
that's terrific. looking forward to seeinng more in this style
very nice ! good to see someone using artrage with renders
I also have Corel Painter 2017 & Corel Painter Essentials. However I much prefer the interface on ArtRage as it is so much more intuitive and the app also seems a lot lighter as far as resources.
Don't get me wrong I do enoy Corel Painter but I do enjoy the simplicity of ArtRage...
I have a few stencils I created for ArtRage that are available on their forum.
For example here is a link to my tree stencils.
https://forums.artrage.com/showthread.php?31861-Tree-Stencils
I think you are doing an excellent job with this tutorial. It is much appreciated. Easy to follow and very clear. I would recommend it to anyone interested in this tchnique.
I have a few ideas in my head using your tips for a future Poser render.
Problem is most of my time is spent in photography. I have 4 Nikon DSLRs and two Olympus DSLRs. In the summer I spend my time photographing around Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Maine. Mostly landscapes and car shows/cruise-ins. I must have taken over 5,000 photos all in RAW which need processing in Lightroom and Photoshop. Some are uploaded to Fine Art America and red Bubble. Others I sell as stock photos on Adobe Stock.
Summers in Nova Scotia are way too short, so I prefer to step away from my computer as I do computer server support for a living..
In the winter I like to do photo painting via Corel Painter, Topaz impression and 3D modeling in Hexagon/Silo3D, 3DCoat. I also recently purchased Moi3D. I dabble in DAZ3D & Vue.
I hope to retire soon so I can spend more time with my digital arts hobbies and antique car...
Cheers
Ken
Had some downtime and thought I would do a comic book render in Poser Pro 11.1 using a 3D model of a Freighter\Cargo Spaceship I am working on. The model is not textured yet.
The Poser render is untouched and straight from Poser except for the gradient background I added via Photoshop.
Many thanks to mmitchell_houston. I think he opened up a new realm of possibilities for my rendering options...
Due to a Christmas obligation at lunch hour today I was not able to visit his excellent blog. But will do so tomorrow...
I really cannot express how much your words mean to me. I invested a lot of time in that tutorial, and knowing that even one person has found it useful is very gratifying.
Almost everything in that tutorial grew from one Webinar featuring Brian Haberlin, who was just so open and honest about what he did and how he did it that it really changed the way I looked at Poser. That Webinar recording is online at Youtube, but it is marred by a horrible audio track that is so bad you can barely hear what they are saying in it. I'm so glad I was there during the live "broadcast" which was clear as a bell. When I finished that event and started trying to use the methods he taught, it took a bit of experimenting to find a method that created a look that I liked, and that I could reproduce consistently so that I could use it in creating comics. For me, the experience was kind of like how I sometimes felt in college when I learned something new and could look at the page and actually see my work improving at a steady pace.
I like your spaceship model. And This is pretty darned good for a raw render. The fun will start when you begin texturing it and applying different weights the the various edges. And remember, you can also change the color of the edges, so that if you want to see a white line against a black region, it's an easy edit to achieve.
I'm really looking forward to seeing what you can achieve next.
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I can sympathize a bit with what you mean about the weather keeping you inside. Of course, here in South Texas, we have the opposite issue: We tend to spend a little more time inside during Aug/Sept when the temps are over 100 F. I even have to walk my dog at 2 am sometimes because it's just too hot during the day.
Playing with another model I was working on. I start models then get side tracked by my photography and forget about completing them. This model is not textured yet nor is it quite completed. However I just wanted to do a comic book render in Poser 11.1 using mmitchel_houston's tutorial as a guideline.
This time I also added some color and texture overlay in Photoshop. The crosshatching was done in Photoshop via Filter Forge 7 plugin...
Cool image.... Merry Christmas!!!
That's cool. I love the illustrated effect you were able to achieve with this. Nice! :)
Thanks. Yeah, I really want to explore this more and see what I can do with it.
Here is a Poser 11.1 comic book render of a textured rocketship I modeled a few years ago. This is straight from Poser the only postwork was adding a photo texture background of canvas (destaturated in Photoshop).
My rocketship I made available as a free model at ShareCG and Renderosity.
http://www.sharecg.com/v/66118/gallery/5/3D-Model/Retro-Rcoketship
Here's the same image with a little Photoshop chicanery via Topaz Studio Impression and Filter Forge plugins...and a Photoshop LUT (color lookup filter).
This looks VERY nice. I like the cross-hatching effect, and the simple color overlay is very effective.
Another nice job, especially for a "quickie." The little sketch effects are nice -- they give it a hand-drawn look tht is very pleasing. And thanks for making the retro rocketship available. I could have really used this a year or two ago when i was doing illustrations for a Sci-Fi RPG (images at my blog, just look for the "Galaxy Prime" tag).
The same to you, my friend! Thanks for sharing this fun image with us!
I'm not 100% sure this belongs in this thread, but... Iray render, bunch of Ron's Brushes, then Fotosketcher.