--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 
> On Oct 24, 2006, at 6:18 PM, sparaig wrote:
> 
> > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote:
> >>
> >> Also if you are enthralled by people with personality disorders--and
> >> probably bi-polar disorder--you'll probably enjoy _Breaking Bonaduce_
> >> on VH1. It's about child star Danny Bonoduce of Partridge Family fame
> >> and his extremely dysfunctional life, including his stays in rehab
> >> and his meeting with his (excellent) psychologist. The first episode
> >> of season two, El Loco Gringo, is also for free on iTunes. Trsut me,
> >> you've probably never seen anything like this on TV.
> >>
> >
> > How's the animation? ;-)
> 
> 
> The scenery looks ray-traced, but the actual figures do resemble  
> "Speed Racer" era and style hand-drawns (was Speed Racer early anime?).
> 

Yeah, complete with bad dubbing that the PowerPuff Girls consciously imitated 
with Mojo 
JoJo's non-stop repetition of himself in order to simulate the extra sylables 
the translators 
threw in to keep an approximate lip sync: "I am Mojo Jojo which is my name 
which I am 
telling to you in order that you should know who I am..."

> What is the actual name of the technique? I have a friend who has  
> paid a graphic artist to do a comic book based on his story-line and  
> he's having a real hard time getting the artist to make the comic  
> book frames not resemble Bryce landscapes with Poser figures pasted  
> inside them. If you have a basic 3D setup, these look gaudy as hell  
> for the comic book genre.
>

Maya 7 and later has a toon-shading option (AKA vector graphics, but in 
spades). It 
reduces the  number of shades used to simulate the pen and ink style of 
animation 
drawing. Notice how the shadows on the faces in Skyland are still perfect even 
though 
there's only 2 shades. You can get that effect using poser objects as easily as 
using any 
other in Maya. The more interesting effects are when you apply outlines to the 
objects so 
that they look evcen more hand-drawn. Maya gives you the ability to randomly 
vary the 
thickness of the outlines as well as a few jillion other options. 
Unfortunately, I'm still using 
Maya 6, and the learning edition version splashes this gigantic watermark on 
everything, 
so I can't use it for anything except learning the interface (gee I wonder why 
they did 
that...).




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