* Poser’s Sketch Designer is far more powerful than it’s given credit for, especially if the output is then filtered in Photoshop<\/a>. You just have to be careful that you’re making custom presets for use with set render dimensions<\/a> and know how to turn Sketch off in the background of your picture<\/a>. Sketch doesn’t just do Sketch, either. It can also get very painterly, and a custom preset can be designed that gives a scene a good underpainting that is suitable for overpainting in software such as Krita.<\/p>\n * DAP’s “GrNovel” filter<\/a> is an excellent third-party tool for filtering inks-only and B&W renders from Poser 11’s Comic Book Preview mode. I’ve yet to work out how to get rid of the little bits of blue colour it adds, but a desaturate conversion to greyscale usually does the trick on flat toon ink renders. It defaults to 2400px, which makes the ink lines rather grainy. This setting (only two changes) gives a much nicer inked result, and a 4800px output, albeit while taking longer to process…<\/p>\n * There are no Moebius-style inking Photoshop or Krita brushes. There are zillions of grungy cross-hatching brushes, but nothing to aid and speed up Moebius-style ‘dash, dot and fence-rail hatch’ inking of clear-line comics.<\/p>\n * Rendering short ‘fur’ in Poser’s hair room can give you a sort of dashed shading that wraps around a character’s mesh. A masked .PNG of the hair can be rendered, and you should theoretically be able to use it as a stippling or dash-hatching inks layer. Wrestling a hair layer into looking like Moebius-style inking is probably not viable, though.<\/p>\n * A subtle ambient occlusion ‘shadows’ layer<\/a> from Poser seems a useful way of keeping shading consistent across hundreds of comic frames made with Poser’s Comic Book Preview, without having the 2D output turn into a muddy and unpleasing mash-up of 2D and 3D.<\/p>\n * As well as burning off the textures from a 3D model (very easily done, with the Comic Book Preview B&W dial) it’s also possible to use Display Styles in combination with different lights<\/a> to get different variants of a B&W line-art look with shadowing.<\/p>\n * Close-up renders made with the Firefly + toon outlines have unwanted speckles on them. Update: they’re mostly caused by bump-maps.<\/p>\n * When using Preview + flat toon lighting, a Poser Display Style of ‘Cartoon w\/Line + One Tone’ can be a viable alternative to a Firefly ToonID layer. Such a layer is used in Photoshop when you have a layer stack of ink outlines on top of colour flats, and want to quickly paintbucket in a new colour or make a quick precise selection of an area.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/grnovel-settings.jpg\")
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