{"id":6730,"date":"2017-05-03T20:16:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T20:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=6730"},"modified":"2017-05-03T20:16:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T20:16:11","slug":"poser-11s-sketch-designer-and-the-comic-book-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2017\/05\/03\/poser-11s-sketch-designer-and-the-comic-book-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Poser 11’s Sketch Designer and the Comic Book mode"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I first loaded up Poser 11 Pro I fairly quickly discovered that the old Sketch Designer is happy to noodle its sketch-render magic along the new Comic Book mode’s toon lines, and thus create a simple soft-charcoal line<\/a>, for later Photoshop blending into the hard-ink Comic Book toon lines.<\/p>\n

I more or less stopped there, happy to have a sort of ‘grease pencil’ line. But after some more experiments today I’ve discovered it’s possible to use Poser’s Sketch Designer to create a different type of ‘rough sketch’ Comic Book line, and at the same time to render Sketch Designer’s lines into the base materials too.<\/p>\n

Here’s the stock Andy 3D character in a flat light, with a simple slightly-shaded plain texture and with the normal Comic Book mode inking lines applied. Next to him is the Andy with some of my home-brew Sketch presets applied into the Comic Book lines, plus another preset where I was trying to get big chunky ink lines.<\/p>\n

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I’ve also discovered (or perhaps re-discovered, after many years?) that you can preview and design a new Sketch render preset in 4000px. First turn off all the Sketch Designer’s also-sketch-lines-into-the-background panel sliders (which speeds it up enormously) and do any old Sketch render to that size, then leave the finished render ‘live’ while going back to: Render | Render Settings | Sketch Designer. This time the Sketch Designer will take some seconds longer to load. That’s because it’s now picking up the settings from the finished render and offering you a live preview at a huge 4000px. As such you’ll have to pan wildly across the preview, to get your object back into view again. But you can then design Sketch presets which work for a 4000px render…<\/p>\n

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Sadly it seems to be no way that convincing traditional cross-hatch ink shading can be done this way, except perhaps as a very lucky accident for one-off character portraits. By ‘convincing’ I mean I need it to work like a human inker would — follow and hug into the shadows, follow curved surfaces with a suitable angle-of-attack, and not start whorling and swirling about. Update: it can be done, but needs tight control of other variables.<\/em><\/p>\n

Still, while the Sketch Designer has its limitations in terms of realistic cross-hatching , it’s also fairly easy to take it far away from its usual ‘teeny-weeny hairlines’ default presets…<\/p>\n

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For reference, if you want to share any Sketch Designer presets you’ve made, your personal ones get stored as .pzs files in one of Poser 11’s many obscure hidey-holes, at:<\/p>\n

C:\\Users\\USERNAME\\AppData\\Roaming\\Poser Pro\\11\\SketchPresets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I first loaded up Poser 11 Pro I fairly quickly discovered that the old Sketch Designer is happy to noodle its sketch-render magic along the new Comic Book mode’s toon lines, and thus create a simple soft-charcoal line, for later Photoshop blending into the hard-ink Comic Book toon lines. I more or less stopped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,22,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-natural-media-emulation","category-poser","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730","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=6730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}