3D max toon shading technquies

hand crafted using fall off material in 3Ds max, and mental ray shadow contour

Using this tutorial: http://vimeo.com/2335564

ink and paint adjustment, setting: variable width, 0.5-1.0, color white, background white.

Using this tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSlU_NG5R8s

Making some small steps toward E-depth anime...

Except I think there's a need to rerig the models, unless I find out on how to render it with outline without changing the material on the rigged models.

chinese funny names

Chinese has it's own version of funny names: (rumored)

Source of the names: 

Month: 

 1 long 

2 bolt 

3 ​​big

4 come

5  dog 

6 guard

7 silly

8 Fortune 

9 poop

10 two 

11 fat 

12 smelly

Date 1 gentle 

2 Ni 

3 Leg 

4 di 

5 goals 

6 pit 

7 years 

8 age

9 doll hair 

10 fur

11 left over

12 girl

13 hero

14 little sis

15 fat 

16 dawn 

17 dog 

18 Tiger 

19 spend 

20 Phoenix 

21 village

22 Eggs 

23 village girl 

24 cow 

25 wood 

26 Jade 

27 love 

28 money

29 stone 

30 beauty

31 hair

中國農村為小孩命名原則認為把小孩取比較不起眼的名字(俗稱賤名)比較好養不會夭折 這套民間法則根據陽曆出生月份和日期起名字。

月份 1長 2栓 3大 4來 5狗 6守 7傻 8福 9屎 10二 11胖 12臭

甲鳥子  日期 1娟 2妮 3腿 4娣 5球 6坑 7年 8歲 9娃 10毛 11剩 12姑 13英 14妹 15肥 16霞 17狗 18虎 19花 20 鳳 21村 22蛋 23妞 24牛 25木 26 翠27愛 28財 29石 30美.麗 31 發

Manga studio 5 wacom tablet trouble shoot

Just in case another person met the same problem I had:
My wacom tablet pressure sensitivity was not working in Manga studio 5.

Today I bought manga studio 5 and installed it just fine, and found out my wacom tablet intuos 4 pressure sensitivity isn't picking up inside the program.
Other older programs I am using works fine like photoshop cs3, paint tool sai both still pick up the pressure sensitivity.
I tried asking the forum first, but its holiday and no one is in.
I tried going online and find older versions had similar problems.
I tried reinstalling and no improvements.

I found out how to fix my own problems after hours of research:

My tablet driver had not been updated since version 6.05.
The latest driver is now on Wacom website, 6.3.6
Once I downloaded the new driver for window 7, it's all fine: http://www.wacom.com/en/support/drivers

Hope this helps another new user who met the same issue. 

Christine Chong,


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O_o WOW, sudden speed increase. :D *thumbsup*

Both chapter 1, and chapter 9 has been reshipped today.

the printing problem

All other issues are here and ready to ship

I am going to wait for missing issues while starting to send some out. I need to do some shopping for the packaging tomorrow. Those who ordered the whole package will unfortunately have to wait the longest, I will include some additional gifts to make up for it. 

shu fa

I was just looking for 2 sets of written calligraphy for Shenshu's reference from two poems.
I ended up taking up 1.5 hour taking in other side references.
One of the constant problem that I have with Shenshu is the amount of scattered references and endless research pit. In a way, that's a good thing, but sometimes it's hard to stop and just do it.

ugh, no more cell shading

That's it. Edepth is not going to have cell shading on the next chapter. I can't take it anymore. >.<
Now that i look back... it does look like I change medium on this manga every 6 chapters or so... or shorter.

D:

Even though its not really good for the manga series to be unsteady with the medium, I need to stay inspired.

This isn't some goddamn animation where I have no choice but to color cell shade other wise die from extra workload etc.