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Show me your artwork!
BeoPuppy:
ReindeerFlotilla:
I've made some stylistic improvements.
Case:
Is this rendered? From 3D models?
Anyhow, this looks amazing! The facial expressions are well beyond the 'uncanny valley'-look of some other rendered comics I've seen.
ReindeerFlotilla:
Thank you! Yup, all 3D. Aside from resizing the images to fit the comic template, there's no post work at all. Render, resize, add text. Pretty much the whole workflow.
Facial expressions are hard. So I cheat.
I do all the hard work, but I start from an easier place. Most people doing this kind of art use realistic human models. I do mine in cartoon style. Beyond that, I try to avoid symmetric expressions.
There's a lot of work that goes into an expression and looking over my whole comic, I can see places where I hadn't quite figured out how to do it and others where I clearly phoned it in.
But the biggest cheat is the 'toon rendering. I think that does more to offset the uncanny valley than anything else. Not to apply false humility and say my other efforts don't help. But the presentation starts by signaling "this is not real." Getting the mind away from looking for realism probably takes most of the uncanny right out.
chaospersonified:
Newest drawing: Synesthetic image of The Happening by The Pixies, from Bossonova
Prismacolor, oil pastel and charcoal
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