recent NPR work

[corey]

We have been on a NPR spell for the last few projects. Seems it is a very very common request with our clients. We'd like to hear what people think of these images. It would also be interesting to hear how others encouter and deal with the request for "softer" images because the computer images look too "cartoon like". Any thoughts?

Most projects were worked on in modeling stage with "progress" images for a while. For the most part the final images were setup so that we could produced them within 1-2 hours notice.

Regards to all.

Corey

[yage]

cool concept-art-stuff!

[cocolas]

nice work!!......my favourite is that watercolor interior with the wood archies.....

did you do that w/ the watercolor filter in PS....can you elaborate?


good stuff.


paul.

[Andre Tobo]

Amazing
I like this NPR...

how did you do?
Can you explain?

tnhks.

[corey]

The typical things we do are:

1. Textures are usually abstracted to some level
2. Add degrees "noise", dof, and blur with some 3ds max effects and scripts when needed
3. Use VRay rendering the images for GI and color
4. some photoshop or combustion compositing

Sorry to say this but there is not set way we do this. We try to be relatively innovative (and retro at teh same time) with our process. So the tools we use varies per project and software release. For instance we were using finaltoon with vray for several projects. We did a NPR animation with no post process other than converting and compressing the video to WMV format. We since then developed a techinque - much faster I might add - with Vraytoon. We were getting closer to a "set" method but we have decided to take a step back from this. Mostly because of some of (what we believe) are the truly natural and artistic qualites of the GI rendering processes that we are discovering with our tests with vraytoon and the latest public beta of vray.

Hope that helps.