I'm still fumbling around with cell shaded looking characters.  I think the problems I keep running into are manually drawing some of the shadows because I think I keep getting them wrong.

I'll keep trying though and thanks for the tip.

EDIT: Hey I like those. Nice work PW.

I just remembered that I could use Scupltris to paint on the character mesh because I just got 3DX4 YAY!!!! So this should make things a LITTLE easier since I can NOW PAINT on the mesh. AND sculpt on it... MAN this makes me so happy.

The problem was always that I had to guess at painting on the UV map and that slowed thigns down because I had to go back and forth and back and forth and guess and it just got upsetting, but now I think I'll give it another shot.

Thanks for the help.

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***BEST OF THE CORE**
:A music reel demonstrating the different types of music I produce for multimedia. Hope everyone enjoys.


Player not working? Use this link.

My other audio work.

Facebook page:

Creation begins at the core.

I'm really interested in how you got that flat look. Are these images rendered in iClone?

- Ron T.

Yes, 100%.

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I purchased the Flowing Skirt V2 pack but I haven't gotten very good results with attempts to customize cloth from it. I have also investigated the superhero cape, but it gives very poor results.

I actually get better results from the Flowing Hair ponytail that comes supplied with the Trinity avatar, after using opacity to zero out the extra locks of hair. The following demo shows Walt's cloak and AuraLee's hoop skirt animated using copies of the ponytail. Not really a scene from my film, but it's suggestive.

PS If anyone wants the opacity map to try building their own flowing clothing, let me know.





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Yep. I would like to just go with footage like this and make a demo reel, but I'm going to have to slow down and really work to get it right.

I think it will require rendering the movie more than once and compositing versions without the clothing. Lots of work!

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Paumaonk very impressive stuff

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Here's your welcoming party: "let us prey, Amen."

Left to right: Finnigan, Cardinal Ratsinger, Rev. Red Phillips, lovely and talented Chastity Phillips (daughter, NOT wife!).



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I finally turned the home page of my website into a showcase for my character designs at

generalpicture.com

You might be interested to see how to host a limitless number of turnarounds right next to each other using CSS float.

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This is the new state of the art in cel shading for iClone 4: good toon shadows at last. Still no ink outlines, but I still feel I can live without them.

The streamlined body is based upon Mr Pose/Mr Slim (muscles by ZBrush!).

Currently I am using two render passes, as shown in the attached picture. The motion is performed twice. The first avatar is textured with a grey reflective material that picks up sharp shadows, as well as a sharp specular line, from the IBL. The second avatar is textured with pure matte colors.

The animations are composited in Premiere.



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Watch the video in HD at Youtube if you want a ghost of a chance of video quality.

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