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[Mik2121]

I just started a new project for my design school and before I continue with the modeling, I'd like to choose my style (the 'toon-ish' one would mean I don't need to make it as detailed as the realistic style one).

Anyway, the project is a video, around 2-3 minutes long, and the theme will be a chase scene between a character riding a vehicle like the ones in The Fifth Element, and a black beast like the one featured in Linger in Shadows. I will make a city too, and i'd like to give it a SOTC feeling to it (the black beast being something quite big/large).

So, I don't want to make this the typical 3dsmax noob style, I'd like to make it something a bit different but I don't have many tools, so for the toon-ish style i'd use one of the basic 3dsmax materials modified, and for the realistic style i'd use VRay engine. Here are a couple renders with a face I'm making right now. Which style do you like the best?

Toon style (shadow color modified, instead of being the same color but just darker, it's a different tone, you can notice it on the orange face with the red shadowed area):

Realistic style. This one would need touch-ups with Z-Brush to make it more realistic, and of course, a texture and material that fits it...:

And for the sake of it, 'retro' realistic style (wut?.. I won't use this one anyway):

 

["God's Beard!"]

toon style has the most character

 

[Haly]

toon style has the most character

Agreed, realistic looks generic.

 

[Mik2121]

Agreed, realistic looks generic.

I guess I'll go for the toon style. I've posted this same thread at IGN and they all are saying the same..

 

[arena08]

I like the virtua fighter look.

 

[Haly]

I guess I'll go for the toon style. I've posted this same thread at IGN and they all are saying the same..

Now I'm inclined to retract my suggestion.

Kidding, go for the Killer 7 look.

 

[Mik2121]

Now I'm inclined to retract my suggestion.

Kidding, go for the Killer 7 look.

Yeah I might not go for the exact Killer 7 look, but kinda similar.. I guess.

I wanna make it brighter, maybe more like Jet Set Radio.

 

[GeneralIroh]

How about overlapping the toon and k7/realistic style.
Of course, you probably have to render everything twice and then export it to photoshop for every frame to mix with the other. Might be too time consuming but the result could be interesting.

 

[Always-honest]

toon agreed

 

[Mik2121]

How about overlapping the toon and k7/realistic style.
Of course, you probably have to render everything twice and then export it to photoshop for every frame to mix with the other. Might be too time consuming but the result could be interesting.

Tried it out. Doesn't look quite as good as I expected, but maybe because there's only a couple objects in the pics. And yeah, rendering twice and re-assigning all the materials is way too time consuming, so I'll go for the toon style I think.