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It's looking pretty good for me, since I'm someone who woudn't be able to do this not even in a million years XD I think it's just the objects in the room that are lacking stronger shadows/highlights (the hand drawn CGs have shadows that look more defined). Hand drawn BGs look more attractive to me because the artist imprints their personality on them, because of course it's not an accurate portrait of reality. So you'd get very different BGs depending on the artist, even if it's just coloring inside the lines. 3D has just this tendency to look a little… flat? Not in terms of perspective, but of personality.

Noted and saved!... Thanks!... I'll show you the results later...

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The last one still looked something that came out of MMD or something.

Which reminds me while browsing the "shit in the frontpage thread" of ED, a lot of posts there point out to works by weeaboos "artists" imitating screencaps of animu.

Might wanna give it a shot on how they do it?

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just went back to that thread.
and I think it's a play on softglow and gaussian blur.

For me the stuff placed in the room looked too "sharp" and stiff.



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I've just noticed that your examples look less saturated than the ones you made.

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Free resources for your visual novel---a growing list (started 11-05-11)

While trying to produce defined shadows... Increased the intensity of the light outside in hopes of casting more defined shadows... instead... it just made the whole scene darker... Lol!


While this defeats the purpose of this activity which is to find a way to produce quickly and cheaply... I still tried it and here is the result... mind if you give me a link to the said article?...



Why can't I produce those shadows?... Darkspartan if you are here now is the time to lend us some of your knowledge...





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The problems I see as a non-artist without any clue of drawing whatsoever (but well, I'm a possible player, ain't I? ):

First off: The examples you posted have one thing in common: The rooms are pretty much filled with things. Your room instead has a dominant left side while the right side has a bed and...and nothing (at least on the ground). So in my case I always tend to look to the left in your room while the examples don't have anything that stands out and gets more attraction than the rest. This makes it a little bit disharmonic for me.

The second thing I noticed: Every picture besides the last one uses brighter colors, which naturally lighten the mood. The only exception would be the last one where it seems that the whole novel is brown-themed, but that seems like something you can only do with 2D stuff. In your case we have a brown floor, a brown table, a brown bed, a brown cupboard, a brown desk, brown items in the shelf...more than 50% of everything in there is brown. Working on that could help as well.

It may of course just be a thing with lights, I wouldn't know about that.

here's the nearest stuff
http://bechnokid.deviantart.com/art/Ani ... -185292428
Not linking to EDF, it's gonna cause some dramu lol




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though this isn't a bedroom and not based from sketchup

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I don't know what it's called in your software but in Gimp it's called Filters>Distorts>iWarp. I've also seen it called something like "make liquid." Anway use this tool with large radius and low effect to sort of humanize the lines a bit. Everything just looks to perfect which gives the room that sort of "Uncanny Valley" effect. Honestly it's just so neat and clean and most hand drawn backgrounds are messier looking. Also I've found Gaussian blur on a duplicate layer set with low opacity can sort of soften up clean overly digital lines and give a more human look. I'd also color cast this with a split toning technique where one hue is applied to the shadows and another to the highlights. Lightroom and Nik Color Effex are both great programs for split tones but I'm sure it can be done in Photoshop or Gimp also.

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I'm really out of practice in 3D--and I'm afraid even when I did try out (pre-Google) SketchUp, I didn't use it for anything more than line art--but looking at your samples, my gut reaction is that your problem is with the renderer/lighting. It looks to me like you have one direct light coming from outside (the only one that's casting shadows), and the rest of the room is being lit by ambient (non-shadow-casting) lighting, which is why it looks so flat.

What you need is something to simulate the indirect light being bounced around the room, so that you have shadows under the bed, under the desk, the corners of the room and all of the other enclosed places that the light has a harder time getting to. I'd suggest looking into whether or not your renderer/lights have some sort of global illumination or ambient occlusion options, otherwise you may need to try faking it with a few low-range, low-intensity standard lights.

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Ah... uncle Mugen never dissapoints me XD
Then... what about the character's seat in his/her school? Why is it almost always near the window?

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So after spending some considerable time tinkering, adjusting, editing, moving a few sliders here and there... I looked at myself and assessed my current skill and decided to give myself a pat in the back... while I didn't managed to get the result I was after... that is, to streamline the BG creation process using 3D tools and ONLY 3D tools to produce a BG that looks as good as hand drawn in the shortest time possible... I still learned to appreciate how far I have gone... what you see below are the final results of this endeavor.



While they don't quite look like hand drawn. I must admit that it looks good enough to be paired with the typical VN sprite. All that is left is to document my efforts and compile them in a sort of tutorial where anyone can learn and use this set of techniques... who knows, perhaps someday... someone will manage to create some sort of one button magical render that turns your 3D into beautiful hand drawn BG's or perhaps revise my current method and streamline it even further but for now... I'm happy with this interim result...

little_misere, you owe me a cup of coffee... no make it two! This thing kept me awake till 4:00AM... Lol!

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Much better, I like the right ones .

Besides: It's kind of funny that you always talk about "creating something in a cheap and easy way" when you actually spend so much time to improve yourself. I don't see any difference to hand-drawn artists besides using other tools.

I think the biggest "giveaway" for me is the texture. For instance, the wooden floor looks beautiful, and I especially like the light coming in through the window. The ceiling and ceiling light also look great. In contrast, the books on the shelf and the black table in the center of the room have really flat looking surfaces that don't seem to have a texture or much shading, so they stand out as CG. I know too much texture also looks really CG'd, but if it's too flat, then it's too "perfect" looking instead of looking like something drawn by hand.

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That's awesome Mugen-kun!
Still there are discreperancies about the color applied to white colored objects, that tend to catch the eye, because it's a bright color. And because of this, the object tends to feel out of place. There's also a problem with the furniture as Sake Bento said. Maybe is it a texture problem, or because you didn't apply any texture, I don't really know.

But still, your work there is impressive!

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IMO all the hand drawn bedroom are narrow and zoomed in compared with the 3d bedroom you created that is too wide and zoom out,

sorry for my bad english

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