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This is the tutorial I’ll be following to create a city in Blender, it seems doable on a time crunch, so I’ll attempt it.

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For the final two backgrounds, I need to create a city and a house interior. I can do this quite quickly if I keep it low-poly, which is why I’ll be following this Blender tutorial. Hopefully I can make this tomorrow before my dealine on the 28th.

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Shading/Lighting Reference

After making my background, I quickly edited my models with textures and set up some nodes for the shaders. It gave me a good idea of where the light and shadows hit on the characters, and it also is useful to use for the painting style of my comic.

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Here’s the background I made for my graphic novel, I can change the angles, soften the colours and reuse it for different scenes which will cut down a lot of time on redrawing each background.

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This is something I am considering using for my trailer.

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Comic Scene So Far

I have been experimenting with the different shaders I have bought. I am happy with this so far, but I think I’ll do one more attempt as it doesn’t look as atmospheric as I would like.

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This is a render so far for the environment, it’s very foggy, so I plan on toning that down and sorting out the lighting. Afterwards, I can change the shaders and edit the textures to make it look like a comic.

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This is the tutorial I will follow, but instead of using realistic shaders, I’ll be replacing them with comic shaders to fit the style of my graphic novel.

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Comic Shaders Blender

This is a test I made yesterday to see what I could do with some comic shaders I bought for blender yesterday. I want to make 3D backgrounds that look 2D so I can use them in my Graphic Novel without having to redraw the setting in each panel.

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Notes (Degree Show)

Produce a video with sound for degree show Animation Showreel (Personal Projects, Uni work) Portfolio (Art book) Final Major Project

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This is a process which I am considering using. I’ll be rendering out some of my backgrounds and using Blender to create a cell shaded cartoon look to my backgrounds.

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This is really helpful to me as I am planning on having to make a lot of backgrounds for my Graphic Novel, instead I may use this to speed up the process and get some interesting-looking results.

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Princess Mononoke Artbook

This is the second art book I bought, this was helpful to see how the layout was for the compositing page and the expressive faces of the characters. I also like how they added a bit of the story alongside some of the character designs and concept work.

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Spirited Away Artbook Inspiration

I bought two art books from Amazon to see how a professional would layout the designs and artwork. The Spirited Away book gave me a lot of inspiration for my concept character designs and backgrounds. I also studied how they laid out the book and hope to achieve something of higher qaulity than my previous TV Series art book.

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Another trailer which I’ll be using as inspiration for my trailer.

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I found this video which shows cgi mixed with 2D puppets. Although I’ll be using frame by frame 2D, this trailer illustrates the kind of look I might be going for.

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This is the animatic for my graphic novel trailer, I plan on changing a lot of this to make the theme more obvious. I will make some thumbnails to add new scenes for the trailer. At the moment, I am considering using a mix of frame by frame and puppetry in After Effects for this to add more dynamic landscapes and camera work and also some character expressions/movements.