Suggestions please: cartoonish alien jungle

stuh505 · Sun 02/05/2004 21:33:35

Hey, I'm working on this jungle scene. I am not looking for any C&C, but rather, suggestions on what I should do to make it more like a cartoonish alien jungle. In this jungle the flora IS ALSO the fauna...most of the plants can move around, etc. Sort of like the jungle from Dark Crystal.

I'm not sure if I should use a lot of hand-drawn textures rather than just colors because I don't want to take away from the cartoon feel but I things aren't right so, any ideas how to achieve that cartoonish feel?

Daz · Sun 02/05/2004 21:46:41

it looks great and a good idea.

to make it more cartoonish maybe up the contrast and make the lighting a bit less dramatic, thats all i can think of right now.

hope it helps.

-Daz

stuh505 · Sun 02/05/2004 22:11:31

do you guys think i should use an effect like this?

Andail · Mon 03/05/2004 00:18:32

I've always enjoyed cartoonistic effects in 3D, and I think you carry it out pretty well...the only thing I can think of is that a jungle would have much denser foliage, and more...well, things...your scene looks like arbitrary objects sparsely positioned on a grass lawn far too neat for being a jungle.

Also, the background could have some sort of dark green-brown texture instead of just black. Just my opinion, of course

stuh505 · Mon 03/05/2004 01:09:16

yes...it is difficult to make the jungle look full, especially without making render time horrendous (the cartoon animations are much more time consuming).

TheDude · Mon 03/05/2004 01:51:21

I think the cartoon effect on the models closer to the foreground work great (those 2 blue flowers look very cool), but as the models get further away the black outline seems to get thicker and it doesn't look so pretty.

stuh505 · Mon 03/05/2004 03:52:43

ok...ive been playing around with the settings (very slow with the high render time) and this is as good as i can do to have the background lines thinner...what do you think

stu · Mon 03/05/2004 04:00:28

try turning the ink off...

also, i think you need something at the base of the trees, like a little bunch of grass or something.. it looks weird when they're just sticking out the ground like that.

Kweepa · Mon 03/05/2004 13:26:34

I thought it looked better with even line thicknesses.
You could render foreground and background separately with slightly thinner lines for the background and composite them in Photoshop.

Synthetique · Mon 03/05/2004 13:53:07

Yea.. make the ground more interesting... like grass and stuff..