Cel Shading aka The Comic Book look

Here's one example of cel shaded Shasvastii on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/InfinityTheGame/comments/g6pi1j/shasvastii_cel_shading_style/

 

On the @marcchee instagram, there are plenty of pictures of Infinity miniatures, too. With various comic/cartoon styles.
He's also the one who made this kind of comic strip with Orks.
https://www.instagram.com/marcchee/?hl=fr
If you have not Insta: https://gramho.com/profile/marcchee/203469610

Asia has launched a whole movement of painting Gunpla in cell shading, and by example, on the korean channel Thestory 더스토리, you can quickly see how it works (it could be easier to test on a TAG ^^).


For the miniatures, the Epic Duck Studios channel has produced plenty tutos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcmPdmhJV33vdRq89CMS5kw

 

Thanks for sharing. The Korean guys painting style is amazing. I think it's usually very difficult to get the shadows and light source from different angles right. Seeing it in 360 degree was very enlightening. Might have to try that soon.

 

Any brand should work if the range is big. For example, Vallejo had some lists in old PDFs, and someone collected these pictures with more cases (the small numbers are the place in the paint rack, IIRC, as color codes are things like 70.950).

But if you mean prepacked groups, from memory, at least Wargames Foundry, Coat D'Arms (originally an artist selection, original site seems down, but the brand sells the packs) and Reaper.

 

As @Mob of Blondes said, any brand should have them.
I know Vallejo include a summary in their game color and game air ranges catalogs.
Other brands may have similar references.

 

Reaper sells triad Skin tone sets that cover the various shades our bodies are can be colored in.

Agreed. I'd look into each paint company's ranges and see what they have for sale.

 

Yeah, I can recommend Reaper Master Series - I use them and their very nice. I really like their matt finish. I usually mix different colors and don't rely purely on the triads, but their good and definitely could help some fresh modellers :)


PozdRawiam / Greetings

 

Learned a new word today. Thanks. Looks very cool indeed.

 

@wuji - I've never tried a cel shading, I definitely prefer more "realistic" painting and was only commenting on the Reaper paints.
And about OSL - I really didn't use it in my miniatures, yet I think your idea is good. The center of the light should be white, then mixing with the color of the light itself and gradually with the color of the surface.
Here's a nice tutorial:
https://www.lightminiatures.com/tutorial-object-source-lighting-osl-and-other-lighting-effects/
I also remember @maru discussing this topic here:
https://forum.corvusbelli.com/threads/color-palette-c-c.36568/page-4#post-348383

Hope it helps :)


PozdRawiam / Greetings

 

One of the things about cel shading in art is that very often the highlights are just as saturated as the midtones, and mixing white will desaturate a paint color. Speculars (the little bright spots on shiny things) can be white or mixed with white. On the other hand, a lot of cel shaded animation is all either midtones or shadows, with highlighting reserved for things that are shiny enough to have speculars in the first place. So it might work to paint everything the shadow color over a neutral or blue-gray prime, then paint the “midtone” over all the areas that aren’t shadow, and then mix the midtone with white and use extremely sparingly for catchlights and speculars on shiny parts. I think I might try this out on a spare Orc or something to see if I can make it work.

 

Hum ??
somone called me ?? or my nose is just eaching becouse of mask ?
So Cell Shading and osl ?
Wellcome in anime land - most of anime is made cell shaded - so you may just rip stright from it

there is the example of same thing shaded in 2 ways
if you are adding osl to it - it go same like with soft shading - no shortcuts just lack of blends - all reflections must be on spot or osl will not work
if you look at my topic yuo will find there an Star lord with osl - it is almost cell shaded mini - it would be easy to turn it to such
The thing with Cell shading is - it is not easer way it is as hard to do as normaly painted mini - as it must be damn clean and it is hard on this scale and light shading must be near perfect or you end with effect of low cost hentai from 80s with random colours instade of high end Gundams or Macross effect
for osl reference check Prince of Persia 2008 and for mega flare effect
for other style Call of Juarez Gunslinger
and Dragon Ball Funkers Z - just rip from this games collor paletes for shading - save a lot of time
- and if yuy need help just ask :)