14th May 2003, 2:34 PM
Quote:I don't WANT something to look flat and purely 2d like a 5 year old drew it (except in the case of an art style like Yoshi's Island ). I want a decent cell shading that gives the same 3D depth that a good artist can.
That's an extremely ignorant thing to say. So if a piece of art doesn't look like a real 3D object then it's only as good as 5-year-old's drawings?? Tell that to Picasso then. He's famous for his flat art. Or what about Samurai Jack? That show has extremely flat characters and backgrounds yet it looks very good.
Quote:It's easy enough when it's actually being rendered in 3D. Like ABF, I see no way it could get better, except the standard ways like rounding out the more blocky parts.
It could look better. Some of the shading is too soft. In order for this type of cel-shading to work the best (making it look exactly like the cartoon but with the fluidity of a D model) they need to harden the shading in some parts of the models. It's a bit too easy to tell that it's a 3D model, but with a little work it could look exactly like the cartoon.