{"id":10212,"date":"2019-03-06T03:54:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T03:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=10212"},"modified":"2019-03-06T03:54:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T03:54:53","slug":"zbrush-2019-npr-for-comics-heads-the-new-features-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2019\/03\/06\/zbrush-2019-npr-for-comics-heads-the-new-features-list\/","title":{"rendered":"ZBrush 2019 – ‘NPR for comics’ heads the new features list"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ZBrush 2019 new features<\/a> are out… <\/p>\n

The big one is NPR, which offers… “a hand drawn 2D style and even take your sculpted creations into the pages of a comic book.” Very interesting, though from the look of the samples I doubt it beats Poser 11 for either i) hand-drawn-ness of the ink lines, ii) ease-of-use, or iii) speed of real-time rendering. <\/p>\n

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While the pencil effect looks adequate, and the hatching on the second example (below) seems to follow the contours of a very boxy 3D model, I can also see the shading zip-tones slicing through geometry as if it wasn’t there…<\/p>\n

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The question is then… can that ‘follow the angles’ hatching (on the second example) also work on more rounded organic shapes, such as characters? The texture-bunching weirdness seen happening on the gun’s round scope suggests not.<\/p>\n

ZBrush 2019 does have MATCap — meaning that (apparently) the toon outlines can pick up their colour from the 3D material applied below them. Which is cool if it works well and automatically.<\/p>\n

Still, the ‘demo comic’ graphic makes it look like the new ZBrush is at least worth a test once it’s available, to see how easily all this can actually be done. There’s a lot<\/em> being added in post here — look at the (hand drawn?) floor, added texturing on the pillar, and (painted?) sky background…<\/p>\n

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Poser 11 would give you the colour flats as well as the ink lines, possibly saving work in colouring.<\/p>\n

But I guess this is ZBrush’s move to an approximate parity with the free Blender and its increasingly powerful (if incredibly fiddly) toon capabilities, rather than Poser 11\/12. If that’s the case, then I guess we’d expect to see the $180 ZBrush Core 2019 have all the NPR features of the main ZBrush. Yet Core currently lacks “2D and 2.5D painting and drawing tools” and a whole lot of other features that a sculptor\/toon-illustrator might want.<\/p>\n

Ok, well… these are just my first few minutes of reactions. I’ll obviously have to give this feature an in-depth review when the time comes. A lot will depend on if the toon lines are just standard uniform toon-outlines (as they seem to be), or are variously weighted inking lines which can look like they were made by a human inker. But if they had ‘tapering\/variable line weights’ and ‘hatching that follows curved contours’, then surely they’d be showing it in the demo pictures?<\/p>\n

There’s also lots of other new stuff in the announcement. Though that seems only of interest only to ZBrushers, such as the expected Folders, Retopology stuff, a better camera system. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ZBrush 2019 new features are out… The big one is NPR, which offers… “a hand drawn 2D style and even take your sculpted creations into the pages of a comic book.” Very interesting, though from the look of the samples I doubt it beats Poser 11 for either i) hand-drawn-ness of the ink lines, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,22,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-companion-software","category-natural-media-emulation","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}