Anime Weekend Atlanta 2010 Shinji Aramaki Question

[DutchWorkingMan]

3D to 2D, is indeed very difficult. I got some interesting effects with combining two renders in DAZ Studio 3, but it's still far from perfect, and it still needs the aproach of IBL light, sigh. 

[animatigital]

@DutchWorkingMan I love your stuff man! I'm glad to know someone else who is into cel-shading. Your technique is too manual for animation, though. I've got to have something that just renders the way I want without further manipulation. I'm about to buy Toon Pro! for Carrara 8. It has some considerable improvements over YAToon.

[mcasual]

i think one way to improve 3d cell shading would be to flatten the model as seen from the camera's point of view before doing the color-reducing shading

[mcasual]

@mcasual

also, when reducing the number of colors ( gradients replaced by 2 or 3 colors ) instead of using mathematically correct color values, using only colors from a limited palette, shared by all the scenes

[animatigital]

@mcasual I think this would be hard to do in animation, due to the camera angle changing.