Thanks Maph! Shuriken will kick ass. Thank you falcon! Thanks VPrime! I took a chance on the arcade style ones and they have sold very well. I'll be doing more stylized particles in the future.
I share the node setup to composite the textures baked with Knald to get a good grayscale ready to color with gradients to get a stylized effect. The AO is too contrasted by default i had to mix it with a white color.
Really liked this Wildstar concept, and I haven't done a lot of stylized stuff. This one is still a WIP. Ready to texture, though, so hopefully I'll put up finished shots soon. This is with normals applied.
I'm not an AAA artist but seeing all these portoflio makes me realize how the high the quality is just for a junior artist, makes me wanna really crank out more work up to this quality but stylized.
RAWTalen - You are right! That's a tricky part and I have not decision for now. Will see.. Probably I got an idea. LRoy - thank you! Here's stylized female figure study. Probably some kind of Deadpool.
The Blubber Busters team I believe is at least partially from Riot, and they have a tutorial out there which covers how they approach their stylized art: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1953507&postcount=78
Agreed. The current very stylized, tight, almost futuristic typography doesn't fit with cartoony zombies. Experiment with some vastly different styles, like Dii's, instead of making tiny adjustments to your current one.
try to be aware that while Pior's statuette is a fantastic reference, it's heavily stylized in a way that IS DISTINCTLY NOT MARVEL. if you want your girl to look even remotely like a marvel girl, then this is already a bad start unfortunately.
Well, no Max. That is why I want to know a relatively straightforward program that doesn't force me to learn a full 3d program. 3d-coat could be interested also for stylized painting (not for zbrush alike modeling)
Well if thats the direction he's aiming for then go ahead and don't use any normals/spec maps. If's theres a reason for not using them, then i don't know unless your after some stylized look?