Animazing environments?
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We're curious.. What do you think some of the best environments in the store for Anime style renders are? Have you used them in any anime renders?
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Hmm. That's a hard one to quantify. Any environment could fit an anime render. Just depends on what kind of anime you're looking to do. I've watched anime set in high school, post apocalyptic wasteland, psuedo-wild west, sci fi space settings...
Edit: I doubt there's any environment in the store that someone couldn't find an anime or manga that it would fit.
As for using them myself, I don't really know if the renders I've done would be considered anime or not, even when I've used Aiko or Hitomi. Anime is such a broad category after all. Though nothing I've done lately has the kind of stylized look that most people consider 'anime'
this is the closest I found in my recent work and I just used AntFarm's Movie Stands: The office as a convenient wall
That's an interesting question coming from DAZ staff, heh...
I'd say any sort of sci-fi corridor works well because a lot of anime is sci-fi or futuristic in some way (so a whole lot of Stonemason stuff). Now using them in an anime style is a whole other thing that 3D really just isn't optimized for. Decent results can be achieved, but it almost always requires postwork and a TRUE anime styled figure - which only a handful of Japanese modelers have really been able to achieve so far.
edit: oh and Tesseract is right, a Japanese school environment is another must-have for an anime fan.
Hi Daz Steve.
for me I can use any environment model to work for anime. I just sometimes change some of the shader. But if I can make a suggestion. if we could have more cartoon type environments or as we say in the anime biz .. toony type towns and other toon type environments that would be best.. Anime/ Manga is originally a Japanese art form. so I would believe anything with a Japanese theme will work great for anime especially if it comes with toon shaders. my most often used anime environment sets are any of stonemasons models. especially the Streets of Asian 1 & 2 sets which work very well. as seen in any of my Karate girl,animations like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Al3Lk8iA-c
also I like using the Japaness corridor which I have used a few times in my anime animations. example animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOlXHYjEXIE
I have also used 3d universe sandy bay village in anime. and anything FirstBastion works very well in anime. example animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjbZe-BYwd8
I also like using HDRi sets when i'm working with anime in Iray.;
But thats my opinion which often differs from main stream users because i mostly create animation for my anime characters.
I hope that helps
PS: if anyway possible I really like to request a old Japanese fishing village with a working dock. there are a few older sets but the dock is poorly designed & nothing i can use for a story board i have ready once i find the fishing village that will work
Or Viking Village.
I would love a Japanese highschool set. With the proper layout and all as there are generally small differences from schools in the US. Like having the lockers in a section by the entrance rather than in the halls... desks set up to hold the schoolbag on back of the chair... I'd also like a hallway with sliding windows that open for those characters who are too awesome to bother with stairs... Rooftop accessable with fence around it... archery range...
I think Tokyo or Seoul urban environments and formal school settings. Old oriental archtechture like the former emperor of Korea compounds in Seoul. The recent living rooms featured would be good sets. An oriental fishing village too.
i was just today looking for a skyrim looking backdrop. something better than millenium envirinment
need a top view tree canopy for flyovers.
waz a good pixel dimension for a 360 background?
Agreed. I've noticed many toons in the store but very very few toon environments. A few more sets here and there in the future could be a good thing. I've actually just assumed some time ago, because of the lack theoreof, I'd just be modeling my own.
Hi Ka1
I actually did use the Viking village set. in my last Karate Girl Adventure animation.. I guessing you may have noticed a how a small Japanese fishing village are usually set up with their docks used as a market place as well. so it would require a awful lot of kit bashing to accomplish the task of making Japanese style fishing village for animation... where as if in had a set already made that I can add too. then I could use it over ans over again. in my story plots its something i have requested for ages. if I had a really great Japanese fishing village i would properly make it my main environment set for my Karate Girl animation. which is where the Karate girl saga started I thank you very much for the suggestion, great minds think alike :)
If you are talking anime inspired, a Japanese high school is absolutely mandatory. So get on that. Just remember to keep Diamond Joe away.
Manga inspired special effects would be a bonus, though these are just as easily added in post. Anything else is pretty much fair game, as anime can be about pretty much anything. As long as it involves school girls, you are probably ok. There are exceptions to that, of course.
Everybody knows real men pose before battle.
If you download Unity 3D and then log onto their Asset Store there are 4 or 5 huge models of a small section of various Japanese cities by Japanese map maker Zenrin.
You'd need to probably want to re-texture them in PBR formats and you'd need a fast computer with lots of RAM but they are good models and better yet free.
I think the biggest key, for me, is textures. There isn't much with hand painted style textures here in the store. (think the toony game texture look). Not necesarily less detailed, but less noisy.
Things have arguably gotten better with this as the whole PBR paradigm at the very least has a lot less baked in stuff so its easier to get cleaner looking.
agree with others in that it's not so much the environment, but more the texturing. Any of the environments/props/sets in the store would work in an anime/toon setting - but it's the texturing to make them LOOK anime/toon that is lacking.
is this a hint of an upcoming product bundle what to include in it and how your going to present it? Perhaps Aiko7? or something/someone related?