start yesterday night. wake up in the afternoon just now and finish this.

Thanks dude

I use 3d gor the bus stop perpective, and render some of the shadow in 3d. So , it actually save me quite alot of time


Dont worry dude. U are not the only person that tell me about this. I have some ideas in my mind on how to blend them better
Maybe thinner stroke with different color, and have to look into the ambient light/color correction area


Thanks for the input.

err typo

3D "for"


I model and render the bus stop in blender3d. Then I just paint on top of the 3d for the busstop.

clean as in?

I think the aim is to make it look less like 3d render, and more painterly.
I didnt spend much time on the 3d material/texture. just put a normal sun light, render/output it with shadow.

This help me reduce the time to plan and draw all the perspective thing. coloring, and deciding where are the hightlight and shadow part. Anyway I still need to paint ontop of them to make it painterly.
But I believe if I spend enough time doing all the settings and textures for 3d, then I wont even need to touch up the render at all.

btw, it isnt really a new idea/method of doing 2d art using 3d guidance, alot of peoples did this ways also.

yea, i know him and saw his work before, how can peoples dont know him when he is so popular

In the anime/manga industry, a lot of company are using 3d/photo as a guidance to speed up their work flow.
The key person I research on is Makoto Shinkai, and I look briefly on "time of eve" anime.

Well anyway, I am just a programmer trying to do my own anime. although there are still lots of place for improvement in my stuff, but I am happy with my progress so far.

it is an option.

We can choose to do everything manually and be a real master that can do everything from scratch.

or we can choose the path where we just want to express the idea, timeline, speed is always priority.


anyway, i believe a real pro who have master painting and drawing skills can do better than me and even faster than me. But I am not a pro, that why 3D help me a lot.

last artwork. Need to do programming project now D:

doesnt blog about this D:

But I have some earlier blog post about my other artwork

http://www.mclelun.com/blog/2012/12/anime-...round-tutorial/
http://www.mclelun.com/blog/2012/10/makoto...nting-tutorial/

There is a few quick and easy way to make your painting nicer.
look into the sun light/glare/fog thing which use the soft round brush and screen/add blending more. it add the "depth" into your artwork easilly.

- edit -

the grundge /dirty/weathered wall. I just use a photo I took (dirty wall) paste in photoshop, change layer to "multiply", then edit it more with brush.

This post has been edited by mclelun: Dec 15 2012, 09:07 PM

have a great year ahead

a fast one, painting on 3d. the character still my weakest area.

CNY artwork~

Some drawings from me.

thanks D:
that one was done a while ago.


haha, will try to do more.

aha, that is did quite some time ago.

you can view more my random animation in my youtube or vimeo.

http://www.youtube.com/user/mclelun
https://vimeo.com/mclelun

did this last weekend
those buildings in the background are just a few photos I put together, distort and paint over.

Program some simple stuff with as3. avatar creator. Try it here:
http://www.mclelun.com/labs/#as3avatar

More random artwork

good matte painting is harder than what you think. Have to match all the level, darkness brightness , color etc.

Perhaps just keep on drawing and enjoy yourself.

This few days punya artwork

playing with posterize and threshold on photo.
election comic.

dont draw?
it is very simple. dont force yourself to draw. you should enjoy the drawing process, not the other way round.



Paint over 3D

This post has been edited by mclelun: May 29 2013, 12:21 PM