I’m trying to make a manga series, but I can’t draw. So one day I was looking at some comic books and I noticed that they looked kinda like 3D objects, so I thought to myself “is it possible to do the same thing with manga?”. I pretty much know how to get it looking like manga (sort of, not really) but in order to get the positions and everything correct, kinda like in this image here:
but you need to rig the characters, make the clothing correct, and then position them. And even when you do that, you still need to make the image correct so that it doesn’t look 3D. Can someone PLEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAASE show me a step by step process of getting this look?!!! It would help me so much.
you have written the step by step process down there, just need to go to google and youtube and start practicing one by one those item, in something like two or two and a half years you will be probably able to replicate that manga page, maybe a bit less if you get someone to be sit next to you at your house explaining how to do the things, but at leas need to expend a year of intense study and practice.
there are no shortcuts, all the info you need its in you tube, vimeo, tutv etc start practicing upload your progress get feedback and critics get better.
Cheers
Do have any experience in drawing and drawing manga or anything anime related? You going to need all the knowledge on the subject as you can get to make it look right.
To understand how to make manga in blender you going to have to be a master of blender not in 3D skills but knowing all the limits of what blender can and can’t do. Also you going to have to experiment alot to figure out those limits.
Manga models are like a hard surface in the way you have to make them so that it shades right. The surface can’t be bumpy or it will show in the shading.
which is inspired from this page of solanin, by inio asano:
it is a work in progress, all the materials and the texture are placeholders and I have barely started detailing the models, but i think it doesn’t look too bad (considering also that this is my first blender project and i have been using the program for about a month).
It’s done with a combination of freestyle and toon shaders