Age of Warp - CartoonAge of Warp - Cartoon

[mavek]

Time for an update. I don't know about you, but my year has been busy. Any way, inspired by the UK release of the Ships of the Line calendar January 2021, I tried to recreate a scene of the Cassiopeia leaving Spacedock in the Cartoon style:

I was convinced to complete this image because I wanted to test out the halftoning shader released last week to see if I could make the scene look like a page from a 80s-ish comic books:

All models by me.

 

[BK613]

The top one could easily be from an 80s graphic novel as well

 

[mavek]

The top one could easily be from an 80s graphic novel as well

Ha ha, yeah now!

When they went back in and remastered/recolored/reissued them.

I have seen the reworked versions of Watchmen, Sandman etc etc. They look great now and so crisp! However people of my vintage it is the latter we grew up with.

 

[BK613]

Ha ha, yeah now!

When they went back in and remastered/recolored/reissued them.

I have seen the reworked versions of Watchmen, Sandman etc etc. They look great now and so crisp! However people of my vintage it is the latter we grew up with.

But there were nice books of that era that were published on high-quality paper that was without the classic halftone dotting.

 

[mavek]

But there were nice books of that era that were published on high-quality paper that was without the classic halftone dotting.

True! Ah to have been that rich to afford them then! I was operating is a quantity versus quality per dollar world back then. I have treated myself to the higher quality versions of some of those stories.

 

[Michael]

Always *love* when someone does something with the Constellation class! If I'm to be honest, I'm not sure the halftone filter quite pulls off the genuine look of a printed medium, but it's cool that they offer that option. I can't quite put my finger on why exactly I think it doesn't work, though …

 

[mavek]

Always *love* when someone does something with the Constellation class! If I'm to be honest, I'm not sure the halftone filter quite pulls off the genuine look of a printed medium, but it's cool that they offer that option. I can't quite put my finger on why exactly I think it doesn't work, though …

You could be right, it is only my first attempt as the technique. It could be loads of stuff, color choice, color spacing, minimum dot size etc etc. For me I was trying, in my head, to hit the 80s-90s DC comics style.

I have a small background in designing printers, testing for ink density on the page, maybe that is coloring (no pun intended) what I see when I produce an image.

Input grateful!

 

[Michael]

You know, when I look at it in its full size, not scaled down to fit the site width, the effect actually works pretty well. So maybe it's just that I wasn't looking at it right, sorry. When enlarged the individual sizes of the offset print dots looks much more like I would expect them to look on a print. The size suggests something more like an era-appropriate poster than a scan of a small comic panel, but if this had paper texture I could totally buy that as the scan of a printed medium.

EDIT: What could also help is if the graphic itself would contain rastered gradients or halftones. Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but I feel like they were pretty prevalent in old comics.

 

[Santaman]

That first pic almost could be the loading screen of an older game.

 

[Kaiser]

Awesome art

 

[mavek]

A small update, these is a video of the viewscreen at warp. It will be used in a full bridge, but getting the screen ready first:

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[mavek]

I wanted to redo the Cassiopeia as a cartoon at warp. This is all done in blender. The stars and streaks were done via a particle system, I am very happy with how it turned out

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[publiusr]

A small update, these is a video of the viewscreen at warp. It will be used in a full bridge, but getting the screen ready first:

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Outstanding!

 

[mavek]

This is Howie Day's excellent model of the Shangri-La Class, which just this week was introduced into the STO world and further canonized Bill Krause's design into the world of Star Trek. (See my original work on the 2D blueprint, done before it showed up in Picard)

I went the other way and stripped it down to get a more cartoon look, this is a screen shot from the introduction to a fan film I am working on. It is set in the fabled lost era between the TOS movies and TNG. What if they decided to extend the movie franchise into cartoons instead of a new TV show in 1987?

Done in blender I redid the cartoon style (again) I feel this evokes a late 80s American cartoon style.