Non-photorealistic Renders (NPR)

Headwax

mmitchell_houston said:

Needed an illustration for a detective story, so I played around with the noir technique I've been using lately. The figure is M4 with some OLD Poser 4 hair (it tends to look better with this technique). I composited several renders made with the Poser 11 Live Comic Book Preview. The sketch effects were created in Akvis Sketch, and scaled up about 400% (in other words, the source renders were 4000 px wide, and I created a Firefly render of the image in Poser, rendered at only 100 px wide - I then scaled it up in Photoshop. I did this because I wanted the sketch effects to be VERY rough so they would show up well while I was scaling the image.

The middle, sketchy image, was created by adding a tone effect in Manga Studio and using the blue region as a mask. I then edited it by hand so it would spill out in certain areas. 

I'm torn between the dark blue and the sketchy images, although I'm leaning toward using the sketchy image. Any thoughts or preferences? 
(BTW: I really suggest looking at these full-size – the smaller versions are missing a lot of detail.)

   Simple Blue

  Sketchy

 Dark Blue

I like number three first and then number 1 :)

 

 

Headwax

Artini said:

Applied Pencil filter in Serif Draw Plus to the iray render of Dante 7.

 

that's a pretty spot on pencil effect

 

Headwax

mmitchell_houston said:

Artini said:

Thanks, firewarden.

Still trying to figure out, how lights affects VectorStyle 2 renders and how to get the best of it.

Below are the two renders of Aiko 6.

Seeing this makes me very excited that I picked up Carrera while it was on sale. Is the VectorStyle2 part of the base package, or is it an add-on?

Hi its an extra. Its about 29 bucks now I see. 

 

Headwax

Something worked up from renders for the latest Carrara challenge. 

 

 

mmitchell_houston

Here's something different. Same image, but I inverted one of the blue sketch layers and suddenly got this interesting brown/sepia look. I'm not sure if i like it enough to use it, but it is growing on me. 

Oh, and on my wife's suggestion, I colored the tie blue.

Thoughts?

 

mmitchell_houston

head wax said:

mmitchell_houston said:

Artini said:

Thanks, firewarden.

Still trying to figure out, how lights affects VectorStyle 2 renders and how to get the best of it.

Below are the two renders of Aiko 6

Seeing this makes me very excited that I picked up Carrera while it was on sale. Is the VectorStyle2 part of the base package, or is it an add-on?

Hi its an extra. Its about 29 bucks now I see. 

Thanks. I'll watch for it to go on sale.

Artini

Thanks, head wax, djigneo, Tobor, mmitchell_houston.
VectorStyle 2 for Carrara is here: https://www.daz3d.com/vectorstyle-2-for-carrara

 

Artini

Tobor said:

Artini said:

Another render from Carrara Vector Style 2 of Unicorn:

Thanks for posting these. How are the actual vector files, though? Would you mind posting an EPS or AI, even a simple image of a hammer or plain object would suffice. I'd like to see how easy/hard it is to edit the Beziers. I can see there are a few things in the unicorn that would need to be cleaned up. I'm hoping the conversion to vector doesn't convolute the outlines too much.

Hi. Below is a monkey from Blender, rendered in VectorStyle2 for Carrara.

In zip are included .ai .eps and .svg files.

Artini

And the hammer rendered in VectorStyle 2. In zip are included .ai .eps and .svg files.

Artini

Clipboard rendered in VectorStyle 2. In zip are included .ai .eps and .svg files.

Artini

Filmreels rendered in VectorStyle 2. In zip are included .ai .eps and .svg files.

wsterdan

timmins.william said:

More playing with FilterForge. Nice thing about more simply 'apply filter' stuff is that I can use Iray, which, for me, is way faster.

This uses Fern Lake tree, TerraDome3 'archipelago' morph + water, and Iray Skies. Plus an old sea turtle model.

This has a very nice "children's book" feel to it,quite lovely.

-- Walt Sterdan

Oso3D

Superhero comic style.

(Mainly PWToon, LR9K to fill in some extra lines, Lightroom to smooth the colors a bit, Photoshop to get the border)

 

Tobor

Artini said:

Hi. Below is a monkey from Blender, rendered in VectorStyle2 for Carrara.

Thanks very much for all of these! I can see they're not too hard to clean up. One additional question, though: I haven't used Carrara since it was owned by MetaCreations (last century), so I don't know any of its features. Does it have a means to add/respect High Res meshes like SubD?

How much was it on sale for last week? I remember seeing a post that it was some ridiculous amount, but I couldn't take advantage of it at the time.

mmitchell_houston

Tobor said:

Artini said:

Hi. Below is a monkey from Blender, rendered in VectorStyle2 for Carrara.

Thanks very much for all of these! I can see they're not too hard to clean up. One additional question, though: I haven't used Carrara since it was owned by MetaCreations (last century), so I don't know any of its features. Does it have a means to add/respect High Res meshes like SubD?

How much was it on sale for last week? I remember seeing a post that it was some ridiculous amount, but I couldn't take advantage of it at the time.

I paid between $20-$24 for it last week. Lots of discounts stacking up on top of each other.

mmitchell_houston

timmins.william said:

Superhero comic style.

(Mainly PWToon, LR9K to fill in some extra lines, Lightroom to smooth the colors a bit, Photoshop to get the border)

Very nice (and you are getting much better lines than I'm getting with these tools -- I need more practice), but I think this calls for some handwork to fix the big thigh on the bent leg and the hint of camel toe on the shorts. 

mmitchell_houston

head wax said:

Something worked up from renders for the latest Carrara challenge. 

This is very interesting. Did it come out in Carrara like this, or did you do a lot of layering in Photoshop?

Oso3D

Yeah, the problem with PWToon is that the lines are hugely variable. It's VERY hard to control and get consistent lines. On the flip side, LineRender9000 gets much more consistent lines... but almost too precise (but, then, good filters help).

As for the cameltoe, I honestly felt that was appropriate to the genre. ;)

 

mmitchell_houston

timmins.william said:

Yeah, the problem with PWToon is that the lines are hugely variable. It's VERY hard to control and get consistent lines. On the flip side, LineRender9000 gets much more consistent lines... but almost too precise (but, then, good filters help).

As for the cameltoe, I honestly felt that was appropriate to the genre. ;)

 

I need to get back to working with LR9K. I have been distracted wirh other processes lately.

Camel toe: HAH!

Headwax

mmitchell_houston said:

head wax said:

Something worked up from renders for the latest Carrara challenge. 

This is very interesting. Did it come out in Carrara like this, or did you do a lot of layering in Photoshop?

 

thanks it's not really my style - we are having a carrara challenge with no post work - so I did postwork (a lot of it)

mmitchell_houston said:

 

mmitchell_houston said:

 

 

Headwax

Here's what I am working towards - another Carrara render :)

MarkIsSleepy

Wow - there are some very cool images in this thread.  I've only looked at the first two pages and the last couple so far, but I plan to spend the next little while going through the rest.

Here's one I just made today for the current Carrara forum challenge.  This is a straight Carrara render using the built-in toon filter.  No post-work other than adding my signature:

Knittingmommy

mmitchell_houston said:

Needed an illustration for a detective story, so I played around with the noir technique I've been using lately. The figure is M4 with some OLD Poser 4 hair (it tends to look better with this technique). I composited several renders made with the Poser 11 Live Comic Book Preview. The sketch effects were created in Akvis Sketch, and scaled up about 400% (in other words, the source renders were 4000 px wide, and I created a Firefly render of the image in Poser, rendered at only 100 px wide - I then scaled it up in Photoshop. I did this because I wanted the sketch effects to be VERY rough so they would show up well while I was scaling the image.

The middle, sketchy image, was created by adding a tone effect in Manga Studio and using the blue region as a mask. I then edited it by hand so it would spill out in certain areas. 

I'm torn between the dark blue and the sketchy images, although I'm leaning toward using the sketchy image. Any thoughts or preferences? 
(BTW: I really suggest looking at these full-size – the smaller versions are missing a lot of detail.)

   Simple Blue

  Sketchy

 Dark Blue

I actually like the Sketchy version, number 2.  I do like your wife's idea to color the tie blue.  Good instincts.  :)

Knittingmommy

I really need to look at Carrara again.  I like the NPR images coming out of there.  One of these days I'll find the time.  :)

mmalbert

I need to make comments but gotta do a post and dash for now -- the hubby bought Rogue One, so we're watching that in a few minutes.

Re: toonish renders, I have PWToon but have always struggled to get something I like out of it. My more usual mode these days is to just go for a general illustrated-like look and run the finished render through Topaz Clean (Fluid Edges usually, sometimes another preset) and then use a preset from Filter Forge's Comic Stylize + weirdness filter (yes, that's what it's called.) I use a line-only preset, copy the result, and then paste it over the Topaz-ified image as a new layer set to 50% Multiply (if one likes darker lines, increase the setting.)

Below is Monique 7 after the Topaz Clean filter was added, then after the merging with the Filter Forge preset. The third one had a subtle distressed halftone texture added. (I do clean up the Filter Forge results a bit using the Mehdi Fine Threshold plugin. I sometimes do this with the airbrush, but usually I'm lazy and go for quick.)

More later...

 

mmitchell_houston

Knittingmommy said:

I really need to look at Carrara again.  I like the NPR images coming out of there.  One of these days I'll find the time.  :)

Me, too!

UnifiedBrain

mmitchell_houston said:

head wax said:

Something worked up from renders for the latest Carrara challenge. 

This is very interesting. Did it come out in Carrara like this, or did you do a lot of layering in Photoshop?

He may have postworked the above image, but the nonpostworked version below done entirely in Carrara looks pretty good to me as well.

Oso3D

I like Comic Stylize + weirdness, thanks for the tip!

 

Artini

VectorStyle 2 for Carrara render of Gargoyle: https://www.daz3d.com/gargoyle

Oso3D

Painting and graphic novel style filters. The scene has Unused Railway architecture (converted to 3dl), plus shanty stuff plus grass (also converted to 3dl), bazaar spice display, rectifier and radioactive outfits, and so on.

And I had to go with 3DL because the Iray I started with hardcrashed my computer twice. ... ok, then!