My fan recreation of a Gil Kane’s panel from Tales to Astonish n.88, page 3, dated February 1967, Hulk and Rick Jones.
Sculpted in 3DCoat, a ton of grease pencil and cell shaded renders in Blender.
After rendering the panel, I concentrated on the main characters, adding a lot of grease pencil, for a turntable, (in hindsight I should probably I have done that from the start, but I experienced a lot of bugs with GP, mainly disappearing traits, and the shadow buffer overflowing in the renders, so, I prefered to keep the two tasks separated).
Here a shot from the turntable:
Here’s a clay shader render:
More here, with the turntable, and the actual sculpts (done in 3DCoat): https://www.artstation.com/artwork/L4GZoK
And here a screenshot of the scene in Blender, with the outline layer and additional grease pencil deactivated, for useability:
Gil Kane was (and still is) one of my favorite comic artists, one of those I misspent my youth copying; among them, he had a kind of presentation, that, to me, removed the action from the “present” and placed it into some kind of archetypal fable-like space, and that informed my decision to use saturated colors, halation and oily blacks for this thing.
Something I will explore more in the future.
The only other thing that “looks” remotely like the reference is the smoothness of the main characters surfaces.
So, the end the result is not too much resembling the style of the original, and I guess that in part that it’s caused by the finicky “inking”. Good to know for the future, it wasn’t a big point of the attempt, to me.
