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jones:
Hey! What do you think is the best program to use for cartoon type drawing?

odnorf:
For cartoon "drawing" the best thing is your hand. For cartoon "coloring" the best program IMHO is photoshop. But if you can't afford it try paintshop pro which is much cheaper.

For a very good cartoon-drawing-coloring tutorial check this one : http://php.hku.nl/~jeroen16/synthetix/tutorials/tutorial1-gfx-mikel/index.php
It's created by Mikel Fick from synthetix interactive.

Dawson:
or you could, like i do use Macromedia FLASH, but many people find this difficult but once you pick it up its a dream.

Jerrot:

--- Quote from: jones on May 21, 2003, 04:22:39 AM ---Hey! What do you think is the best program to use for cartoon type drawing?

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I know many people using vector programs for that purpose - like Freehand or even Flash as Dawsonus does.  At least if you use the style with black outlines, it seems to be perfect for that. (But I don't know more about the colouring.)

If you want to create 3D, you'll have to look for a cel shader (some kind of renderer) to get results looking like coloured comics. It's included in the latest 3ds max versions and you just have to use special materials for it and that's it. I'd love it, if I better knew how to create 3D objects.

Back to drawing, I like Photoshop most - but I like it most for all purposes and you'd need some practice with it. I guess PaintShopPro is easier to handle and has great functions, too, but I don't know it very good.

I guess it's just a question of the method. If you draw on paper, you might NOT want to recreate every line in a vector program again etc.

Dawson:
Of course, freehand 10, why didn't i use that before? oh, i cant...but i'll learn, can't be tohard.

New title Jerrot? Nice.

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