Posted on July 29, 2011 by Adam Amaral

I know all my VFX homies would shun me for repping Cinema 4d but I must say, it kills it sometimes.  On a recent job I had to recreate hand drawn boards so that they could be animated.  I knew it’d be insane to do it the real (cool) way a.k.a frame by frame cell animation,  so I opted to use  a 3d route.   My homie Cale Ajoka  drew up the initial sketch and then I set out to rebuild it in 3d. It was a fun process that kind of trips out your head a little because 3d is all about grids and accurate perspective, but drawing stuff by hand always creates those imperfections and physically inaccurate perspective that we all love.    To get the hand drawn look, I used Cinema 4d’s sketch and toon renderer.  I had no prior experience with Sketch and Toon but after some tweaking and tests I was able to get a line quality I was happy with.