DAZ filters for cartoony look a la Jaime Hernandez

harryllama

Hello, I'm brand new to DAZ, and I'm looking to use it to create a comic strip in an NPR style like Jaime Hernandez or the op artist Roy Lichtenstein (samples below). Any suggestions, links?

Thanks,

Harry

 

Cris Palomino

Jaime is an old friend. I have always had a keen fondness for his pencils and inks. You can find plenty of plugins and NPR stuff that will give you B&W art, but unless you modify it, will never really look like true inking because it will rely on the the models and shadows in your scene. Good inking looks the way it does because it is designed.

That said, there are some good render styles available for 3DL renders. Look for Algovincian (think I spelled that right) and threads on comics and graphic novels.

nonesuch00

The Lichtenstein style is really just dithering color to a halftone which creates that comicbook dot pattern. It's how real photos are printed to paper magazines, how newspaper photos are printed, and so on.

You should be able to do a tutorial and learn to do that in Gimp, Photoshop, and many other 3rd party image filter programs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halftone

http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=8195

For the other, you need to, and it won't look hand drawn completely but still look pretty good.

1) Buy pwToon in the DAZ 3D Store (https://www.daz3d.com/pwtoon) - these are 3DL shaders so you need to select the 3DL renderer when rendering.

2) Supplement the pwToon shaders by downloading, installing the freebie at shareCG that is a set of 3DL toon shaders that augment the pwToon shaders. You want to choose the toon presets that have thicker black outlines so you want an color inked effect. http://www.sharecg.com/v/69733/gallery/21/DAZ-Studio/Crescents-pwToon-Cel-Shaders