I recently picked up Sixus1’s Tsathoggua for Poser for just $1.79, and for a slightly chunkier $4.49 I also had Sixus1’s Triceratox. Here’s my demo of Tsathoggua as a Triceratox rider, which also evolved into a quick demo of a few of the many capabilities of Poser’s Sketch renderer (when you take it away from the default presets).
Default ‘raw’ real-time comic-book Preview. No Sketch in action here. It’s not ideal, mostly because the textures are gungy as heck, and thus unsuited to tooning. But here I was experimenting to see what Sketch could do in such cases.
1930s pulp illustration scan. Not bad, some of the grunge seems more tolerable when made into ‘chalky-pastel’, and it has a badly-printed look that says ‘pre-1990s comics and pulps’. 20 seconds.
Shadows could be lifted with Photoshop’s ‘Shadows/Highlights’.
A light base for over-painting. For a painting with a lighter feel. 10 seconds.
A heavy base for over-painting. For a darker ‘oil painting’ type over-painting. 10 seconds.
“Bernie Wrightson called, he wants his pens back…” This took a little longer, two minutes, but is viable (i.e. doesn’t crash Poser). Could be paired with very-thin pen outlines for more definition, and the few bits of whorling could be fixed with some dabs of Photoshop’s Healing Brush.
