First Non photorealistic attempts

[alias_marks]

I've lately had the opportunity to work on some projects that have gone more the way of NPR route. Never really done much of it before but am having a good time with it. Any comments or crits welcome of course.

 

 

[demo38]

Michael, looks really nice. The first image looks a bit confusing in the center with so much going on there, but I think it's mostly just color. Due to the crossing road being yellow instead of the same gray. I really like the elevation.

 

Nice work.

[AlekseyR]

wow, that is really cool. I especially love the second shot. is it 3d? this approach could really cut down on render time and still looks great.

 

[edit]: oops it was meant to be second shot.

[alias_marks]

hey, thanks for the comments. I agree with the first image about it getting a bit too cluttered over in the walkway and about the roads being different colors. I'll have to look into that.

 

I would definitely like to mention that a lot of the base of these images were worked on by some talented others in our office (Phil Fossen and Dave Ortiz), and I completed the final photoshop work.

 

The second image was originally rendered out of Viz+Vray, brought into sketchup to render a sketch pass, and then a lot of painting in photoshop.

 

Here's a quick break down of some of the steps to give an idea.

 

Original render From Viz:

Sketchup Pass:

Photoshop Layers:

[Koper]

very cool! how long did it take from the time photoshop was opened?

 

thanx for the bit of insight in the process!

 

oh, the only thing that i didn't like in the first images is the photorealistic people, dont fit the non-photoreal style

[alias_marks]

Thanks AdriaaN, it was about 3.5 hours of photoshop work once I had all the pieces to work with.

 

Lots of playing with blending modes/opacities/layer masks/adjustment layers/filters on specific layers.

 

Maybe close to 30-40 layers all together.

[Garrett Gray]

Cool stylization! I think if you were to remove the two foreground trees in the first image it might read better. And I agree with Koper...remove the photorealistic people.