Where CanI Find Anime Materials?
spearcarrier
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Hello everybody!! *waves and hops up and down* It's me again! This time I don't have a technical question - can you believe it??? I know. I know. *waves hands to calm everyone* But the help I received here and in other places has me going so that I even understand some of the tutorials I find.
I've been getting into cel shading lately because I want to return to one of my old comics, and when I colored it I used to do this cel shading blend thing. And after much experimentation I have decided the old fashioned way - skin materials with the pwtoonshader - looks best.
I have bought and tried the subsurface toon shader and it's great for some stuff... but then I put the Anime A4 material on genesis last night and did a toon render just for larks and really really liked what I saw. The soft airbrush look (and the blush around the cheeks, which I really missed with the subsurface) just made the right combination. I can't get that when combining subsurface with pw. I get a nice cel look, but it falls very short.
So I wonder if folks know where I can get anime material skins?
Oh, I absoultey love the REC hair shaders and the toon hair shaders. I'm also looking for more of that. A girl can never have too much... okay maybe she can.
I found the anime eyes for Genesis this morning. Definitively on my shopping list. I never could get the subsurface eyes to render with a catch. And although I can put catches in myself, it just looks better for the catch to render there in the first place.
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Hello!
You might take a look at BishonenTaurus in the shop, I personally love both the visual style and manga style shaders. That might help you get the look you want.
Hi there! Yes, I do like BishounenTaurus's stuff - well, I haven't tried the manga shaders because everything I've found that might be a tutorial ended up with the person making the tutorial frustrated that things just don't work. I.... don't wanna bother with it then. Anyway, I'm trying for a color look. And the visual style shaders there are the very ones I mentioned in my original post, that had a good look but fell short of what I'm wanting. And mind you, I do know how to put blush and tattoos up under the visual style shader. I probably will have to for one of my characters, but if I can avoid it I want to. I'm not good at placing things on the map.
I really want skin materials. You know, those old fashioned jpgs we used to put on our characters? So far nothing beats that look with the p2toon shader.
Actually I stand corrected. The visual style shaders are the ones with the frustrated tutorials. The shader I was thinking of in my original post are the toon shaders. Sorry!
Anyway, from what I see in the preview they don't have the look I'm going for. Although I'd like to buy them sometime! They're too expensive for me to risk my wallet over only to end up frustrated later. No, I'd like to stick with skin materials for now - because I know they do what I want.
Sorry, still processing the morning coffee, missed the obvious again! :red:
I found on the manga shaders (and visual style shaders) I personally got more out of the manual than the tutorial, but I've always been funny that way. Those and PW toon pretty much have covered my needs to this point. I've had some nice results using some of the highly detailed realistic textures, then applying the manga shaders with the control key and telling it to ignore map settings and setting it to a tiny dot setting (200 or 300 in the partial presets, size). I'm not sure if that helps? I will admit, I'm still largely a newbie, so there may be something uber-cool out there that I've totally missed.
Allow me a shamelessly self-serving plug: the following product is almost ready to send to DAZ:
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/22652/
I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but since Scrubb made a shameless plug, I will do the same. This product, Toon Girls Skin Pack, will be out very soon. There are 6 skin shades, from very pale to very dark. This is a sample of just two of them. They are only for the females right now. They use the V5 uv maps, so if you don't have that they won't help you. There are a load of makeup options and eyebrows and lashes, too. Stay tuned for a "coming soon" type thread, as soon as I am allowed.
I know they are not cel shaded, but you might find that they look good rendered.
Well you sure have my attention, ooooooooooh...both of those look nice, thank you for the heads up on both!
Hawkonthewing: no worries! I was just as embarrassed at my flubup.
Esutace, Slosh... SQUEEEEEEEL! Gosh, I hope I don't miss out on Eustace's shader release. Do you have a Deviantart I can follow? Same goes for you Slosh....
Slosh, this is 1/2 of what I'm looking for!!!!!! They're perfect! I don't want them to be cel shaded. I want that airbrushed look on skin. It mixes perfectly with the pwtoonshader. Like the image I'm attaching.
I hope you're also going to be doing skins for the guys?Or maybe just different face mats? Everything in Daz seems to center around the ladies, but I have to tell you my readers with Heavenly Bride prefer to see Lhung, the main guy around those pages, for the most part. And I have a lot of other guys, all colors, that will need attention.
You can see my deviantArt link in my signature. These skins have 3 different bump settings, too, so you can go for pores, closeup, or no bump at all with presets, which should help with your particular look. I do indeed plan to do a male set, however you may have noticed that aside from Hiro and a couple of others, there are not too many male toon figures. I thought I would wait and see what happens when DAZ introduces some male figures for Genesis 2. I want to find out what base UVs they will use and I want to see how this particular product goes over. It took me about a month to make these, so I would like to see the interest before investing too much time. Since they are V5, you can use them with Genesis 1, so the males are included although the makeup options won't help, lol.
I've gotten so used to seeing signature everywhere, I didn't even pay them any attention. I'm in the process of lurking a both of your doors now.
Yeah I know there aren't many male figures - it's a point of great frustration for me. Now I can take a female mat and unblush it, etc, but now having to do it would be a great help. It's already going to be a pain putting certain tattoos where they belong. I switched to 3D from drawing for health reasons: using DAZ is easier on my hand. And I COULD write comics with only female characters, but I'm sorry. That would be boring. Like it or not, world, guys do matter.
(after checking out deviants)... Gummy shader??
Gummy shader? Me? If you mean the little green guy, yes. If you mean Sam in The Crush, then no, it's straight up SSS Shader.
Yes, I do mean the crush. I fell in love at first sight.
In the description you mention you had used the gummy shader on his hair. I just flew to DAZ, found it, added it to my wishlist. I never would have thought of that.
Oh, did I? I'd forgotten. Now I think about it, I used it on his desk as well, I think.
Ha ha ha, I never would have noticed. I'm going to have to make these shaders part of my next purchase. I was looking at making a lot of my props and background elements simple toon shaded things, but if I can bring them out more I would like that. Although I don't think I'd be able to mix the gummy shader with the pwtoon.
What about this? This is using SSS and pwToon.....
http://disparatedreamer.deviantart.com/art/Love-Evolution-150909671
I like it! But I can tell that the skin is using a different shading style than I'm looking for. =^-^=
That's also a pretty good composition. Where did you get the pinwheel?
Yeah its just one kind of shading style ^^
Pinwheel is from http://lab108.x0.com/lab108/toys.html
Lots of fantastic freebies there, he used to have something that said okay for commercial use but i can't find it anymore, so anything I use from there is non commercial only now