Great work! It’s amazing how close you were able to get!
Looking at this, I couldn’t help but think how well it would look if you made a short with this character, but with a minimal-paintery-sets background to get a really “hand made” feel to it. So, instead of having a full set fully visible, you’d only have a small region visible behind/around the character. The effect would be like if you had your base image/background, then masked it with a rough/thick paintbrush, making only the bits you’d painted show up. And, on each frame, you’d use a slightly different set of brush strokes, so it looks like the background is being hazily painted in - almost like a slightly foggy/misty day on the coast of a sleepy fishing village. I’m imagining that this could work well if the background was mostly monochrome (using something like the colour you’ve got on that clay render, except perhaps a bit darker, or even less saturated?), showing glimpses of a lighthouse or wharf-like structure…
@Aligorith I like yours idea for background, I was thinking about something like that before but I need to compare few styles before I’ll chose one. BTW what do you think about 2d background like this one for a short?
Posted a comment on BlenderNation, YouTube AND now here . . . this is outstanding!!! You’ve managed to capture this cartoon-style perfectly IMO. Great, great work! Look forward to seeing more. :RocknRoll:
Regarding the wireframe, is there a reason for it being so weird? I mean the boots for example have plenty of Ngons and tris, and I really dont see that this translated into anyhing substantial. Im gonna guess that you were expecting more lines in the freestyle render out of it(?).
As a side note: I would really love to see some animation added to the fish heads! That is so much of a missed opportunity! As a fisherman myself, dead fish flop a lot when it is fresh. It would have been really funny to see the heads flopping while the dude walks.
Howdy! I’ve been offline for a while, thank you for you original reply.
I think the 2D background looks great and would like great with the character style you created. I’d been very interested in seeing a short pulled together in this style. It really excites.
Cheers guys! I’m adding a test of the background I might use for the anim, but I’m still not convenience is it the best option for this style of freestyle
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