Joel Dubin JoelD 3d Generalist Location: USA Member Since: August 2002 Last Updated: 27 May 2009 Portfolio Views: 22837 Chosen as Favorite: 14
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3d Sketch-Style Storyboards CINEMA 4D, Photoshop February 2007
Here is a selection of frames pulled from storyboards I did for a recent CME animation. To save time, I built all the scenes in 3d using cinema 4d, then used the Sketch and Toon module (as well as falloff shaders) to create the pen and ink look. For many of the frames, I did 2 passes--one with line only and one straight pass with lighting and materials . I would then desaturate the straight render and overlay the lineart in photoshop. I found this mehod more flexible then having to tweak my settings in sketch and toon to give me exactly what I wanted (which sometimes worked). The beuaty of this method is that the client gets to see storyboards that are pretty close to final (camera angles models and environments are alll there) and I can pretty much jump right into production mode on the actual animation once the boards are approved. These were almost as enjoyable to produce as the final animation.