HOME | DD
yuumei —
3D background Tutorial
Published: 2012-07-23 18:29:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 549305; Favourites: 23153; Downloads: 9820
Redirect to original
Description
YUUMEIART.COM 
Other 3D programs
Other Drawing programs
Too poor to buy any of these?
Most of us are not rich or just too young and mom said "NO"... well, I'm NOT encouraging this, but a standard rule is: If there is a program, a free cracked version of it exists somewhere on the internet. Usually google is enough to find them, if not, try 3D forums.
Good luck!
Related content
Comments: 868
👍: 1 ⏩: 0
Thank you very much! This is very useful for me because (as anyone can see in my gallery) I'm struggling with backgrounds/environment pretty hard!
👍: 1 ⏩: 0
You use Vray to render cartoon lineart with fisheye effect included? Which version of Vray does this?
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
I always appreciate when artist I love take the time to make a tutorial
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Could I suggest adding "Krita" to the list of drawing programs? It's both free and open-source, and incredibly good (David Revoy, creator of Pepper & Carrot is one of the most famous users, and Sara Tepes too).
I believe it's better to recommend something like this at least before suggesting using cracked versions of paid apps, because not only it helps the free/open-source apps, it also might help getting the expensive apps getting... less expensive, in the long road.
Also, nice tutorial <3
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Is fine. Of course you have to know the fundamentals well enough (You don't have to be perfect), otherwise it shows.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Can you use those models for drawings with commercial purposes?
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
I've been looking for something like this for so long!! By the way, you are one of my favorite artists. Thank you very much for this!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
This will benefit me well for my projects from comics,to animation scenery.
Once I get used to sketchup(dont got pro yet) ill certianly be using this tutorial as one of my learning tools,and refs
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Thank you for patience, time & generosity! 
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Oh, it makes me so sad to see so many spam & bot comments on your work.
This tutorial is very helpful! Originally I would use Blender, however it was inefficient and would only export very small dimensions. This has really helped, thank you for sharing it (:
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Just used this tutorial to help me get lineart for a pay phone. Life saver!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
REALLLY helpful for someone like me who just discovered this drawing world! Thx again for making such a useful tutorial!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Thanks do much for this tutorial. You don't even imagine how much I needed.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
This is awesome. Thank you so much for putting this together
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Woww. This is so helpful and awesome! Thank you.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
This is awesome! 
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
one of the best tutorial i found! thanks very much, I do have one question.. is it possible to use this with the shadow in sketchup?
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
how do I save the exported PNG to a certain size?
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
very wonderful!! XD I was wondering how other comic artist do that incredible background pieces
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Most of us are not rich or just too young and mom said "NO"...
Haha very true
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I feel this. and my PC's limited RAM is bothering me. it's hard to get an upgrade without the cash you need.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Especially if you haven't turned 18 yet… D:
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
yes! *cries* it's hard to earn money
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Thank you for all your tips, it's REALLY helpful.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
clever girl, but seriously great idea awesome job
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Now I know how movie producers makes atmosphere look sooo realistic. Thanks! 
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
seriously, this is a great tutorial. I really like it.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
oh. My. God. This is SO helpful...! Thank you for sharing this!!!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
This was incredibly helpful. I was reading through fish eye placebo and I was astounded at your background details! I am starting my own webcomic and wanted to have detailed backgrounds but wasn't sure of how to find the time to do them as well as you do. Thank you so much for your tutorial!!!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
this is not really a good idea.
i don't care about the legal aspect of this, tbh. it's just this has nothing to do with 'how to draw' backgrounds. you're not drawing them at all; the computer is doing all the work. and i don't mean like this is 'cheating' like it's morally wrong or something, but:
i can sketch scenes quickly in 3d because i practiced, and the fact that i can see things in 3d in my head (from all the practice) means that all other parts of my drawings are improved as well. you are crippling your ability to improve at drawing, by doing this stuff. every time you let the computer carry you through, you are denying yourself 100 opportunities to get better.
it's the butterfly metaphor. the butterfly needs to fight out of the cocoon to survive. if you cut the cocoon so the butterfly can go free easily, it will never have the strength needed to fly.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
From the artist's own words: "People need to keep in mind that different artists have different goals. Yours may be to perfect drawing everything from imagination, mine happens to be to illustrate a story before I’m 70, because unlike Pixar, I am a one woman team doing research, paying rent, and working on 2 graphic novels at the same time. (though this story won’t be released until 2013).
... Artists aren’t clones programmed to have one goal in mind. That’s not saying we shouldn’t try to improve ours skills without 3D, because it will come in handy for many other situations. I honestly wouldn’t be able to integrate 3D and 2D if I didn’t learn how to draw everything in 2D the old fashioned way. Sketchup just speeds up the process.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
this is not what i meant. i am certain you misread me.
i wasn't trying to 'show off', because nobody really cares about backgrounds. i almost don't even care, myself.
i am trying to make a graphic novel and it doesn't matter how nice the backgrounds are, I can't tell a personal story about people with them. no-one's going to be emotionally invested in 300 pages of random backgrounds.
like, yeah, WHO CARES if i just walk in and say 'oh look i can draw backgrounds', it's not about how 'great' i am for doing it. it's the fact that it's a valuable ability, and i want other people to have it as well!
the fact that i can see things in 3d in my head (from all the practice) means that all other parts of my drawings are improved as well. including people, composition, etc. etc. etc.
it's not about practicing until you can 'show off and say look at all the backgrounds i can draw without sketchup', it's about learning to create any shape you want, with fidelity! tracing can get you rigid, geometric backgrounds quickly, but it can't get you organic, dense backgrounds, or characters and expressions, different poses, etc. etc., you know? drawing is a holistic activity, where all techniques are interconnected! if you isolate different parts of it and avoid practicing on them, everything else you draw will suffer somehow.
if you want, you could create your scene in sketchup, pick your camera angle, and then try to draw the background using the picture as a reference instead of tracing it. it will have the best of both worlds: a complicated reference for a specific scene with all the angles planned out, as well as a lot of valuable practice getting your hand and visualization ability (in the reproduction) to do exactly what you want them to.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I disagree. You can make just as much organic and rich content by incorporating fully 3d stylized objects as drawing it out from a reference, which is an unnecessary waste of valuable time when you're working with deadlines.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
i'd need to see some examples of what you're talking about, first, before i could form an opinion on what you're saying here—but you didn't respond to the other things i said in my reply!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Seen Paperman and Feast? Both were done with incorporated and stylized 3d models with added (traced) line work.
Im in at work so my posts have to be brief between clients. What question do you have?
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
i don't really have a particular question, but your reply only mentioned one tiny part of my post, which it disagreed with. does that mean you agree with the rest of my post?
anyway, paperman took about a year to make. I mean those 3d models and rigs would've gone through dozens of revisions. not to mention all the animating which--even though it is rendered in 3d--was all ANIMATED by hand. the whole work was run as a 3d animation pipeline, NOT a 2d one, and the whole thing would've taken months. some of those sets would've taken a LONG TIME to make! not to mention the render times. the tracing effect in paperman wasn't actually so much tracing, it was sparse hand-drawings which were attached to the existing 3d animation (which would've taken a long time to do btw) and dragged around by the 'meander' software system. not only that, but artists would actually draw a thing and then go back and adjust the cg to make it look more like the drawing. it would've taken forever and been very painstaking, and certainly was responsible for the 'organic richness' you mentioned, instead of the other way around.
back in the 2d animation days, disney only accepted people with giant portfolios full of life drawings, scenes, designs, etc. etc., and they expected you to have drawn it all by hand, not just traced off a photo you took.
nowadays, disney and pixar wouldn't hire a visual artist based on their ability to trace—if the artist didn't have any paintings, drawings, design-work, etc. They might hire a visual artist as a background and prop modeller, but they would almost certainly have this person working from DRAWN concept art, to make 3d models that look more like the drawings, instead of the other way around.
and then there are the lighting specialists and the camera specialists, the riggers and modellers, the texture painters who must understand all kinds of photorealistic textures before understanding how to stylize them. ask any industry professional and i am certain they will tell you the same thing!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Sorry I really don't have time to answer all this. All I'll say is Paperman's planning (including inventing a new software to help track 2D lines to 3D objects) and storyboard took longer than the execution. There was a lot of line tracing of the 3D model involved, and manipulation of 3D objects which are visible even in the final scene. Very little of any part of this project could be described as free handed.
Once you you have a system, stylized 3D illustrative work isn't that hard. I've dabbled in it myself (though I was mimicking comics not cel shading- fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/201… .
There is a very real and applicable market for what Yuumei is doing and it shouldn't be discouraged just because it's not a traditional method or because it saves time.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
my first post said that i wasn't discouraging it because it saved time or because it wasn't traditional.
anyway i think you've kind of completely missed my point at this stage, so I'm gonna kinda give this conversation a rest, sorry.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
| Next =>