This was another experiment in creating a non 3d look using 3d renders. I wanted to recreate a 1950s B movie style comic page. I also like the idea of playing around with duotones, i think the lack of visual information encourages the viewer to think more about the scene. The characters and boat in this scene were both rendered using Daz3d, i then took this is into photoshop and comped them together, adding various filters and effects. The trickiest part was getting the right lighting in the render to begin with. The water was taken from photography, using duotone black and white the final composition is quite forgiving when it comes to the quality and grade of the original elements when seen in colour, another reason why i like this style, it's fairly quick and forgiving.

I'm sure for every artist the idea of creating a comic book passes their thoughts at one point or another, a nerrative story told in pictorial form, whether that's a comic, childrens book or story board. For me personally i'm not quite sure i could ever come up with a worthy enough plot, i have ideas in mind but too scattered to ever form anything constructive and interesting; though i do have that itching feeling to try.

One conclusion i'm getting from using 3d characters, no matter what you do or how hard you try they always lack the subtilties and inperfections of a real person. You can take a 3d character and attempt to inject hours of effort into creating the perfect expression of joy, sadness, pain etc .. but it always seems to fail. However the more you divert away from the human character, the more forgiving it becomes. For example applying emotions to a dog or alien character works far better than applying to a human character. I guess in the above example of a comic book style, the story would have to support the images more when it comes to expressing the desired emotions, and in no way does the above succeed in conveying any emotion, but i think it succeeds as a visual style.