Anime Weekend Atlanta 2010 Shinji Aramaki Question

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At Anime Weekend Atlanta 2010, Shinji Aramaki was a featured guest. He has worked as a designer on many shows, including Macross, Bubblegum Crisis, and Fullmetal Alchemist. He was also the director of several movies, including the cel-shaded 3D CG anime feature Appleseed.

During the question and answer session at his panel, I had the chance to ask him about the future of cel-shaded CG in the anime industry.

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Film & Animation

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• anime
• Shinji Aramaki
• 3D
• CG
• computer generated
• cel-shaded
• cel-shading
• celshaded
• celshading
• graphics
• render
• Macross
• Bubblegum Crisis
• Fullmetal Alchemist
• Appleseed
• Ex-Machina
• Anime Weekend Atlanta
• AWA
• 2010
• convention
• con
• panel
• q&a
• question and answer
• talk

[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

[animatigital]

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

[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