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I Created a Comic Book with Zero Drawing Skills in Blender

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A multi-stage time-lapse showing the process of creating multiple comic book panels, using premade rigged character models and environment assets.
The process involves first kitbashing several characters and then setting up a basic environment.
The next step involves duplicating, posing and lighting the characters individually, corresponding to each comic book panel, while setting up multiple camera angles to reflect the mood of each scene.
Finally, the individual scenes are rendered and imported into Photoshop where a line art filter is applied and artifacts are manually removed.
Credits
Artist: Armoured Avian - linktr.ee/Armo...
Editor: Force Quit - linktr.ee/Forc...
This comic book short was inspired by the Metro 2033 Book / Game series. Authored by Dmitry Glukhovsky.
▬▬ Process Stages ▬▬
00:00 Stage 1: Kitbashing
01:14 Stage 2: Posing
09:25 Final 3D Renders
09:51 Stage 3: Photoshop
12:39 Final Comic Panels

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@neototem4110 Год назад

Been drawing all my life, added digital in the 90's, still do traditional. What you've done here actually takes MORE WORK than if someone did pencils and ink by hand. Definitely legit. I love it.

@kurodahyokazahuchi5344 Год назад

I was about to say the same. It has more work and it takes a lot more time. Hell, it even takes more resources from your pc. The final result is good, but the process is definitely not efficient.

@naive3832 Год назад

@@kurodahyokazahuchi5344 Do you mean the photoshop side of his pipeline adds more to time? Once modelling, texturing and rigging is complete, they don't have to redraw characters, body proportions are always correct or consistent depending on the style you want (Also can always modify characters if need be). They're not animating, so poses are very quick (from my experience) and can be changed on the fly. Framing is easy cause you work in 3D. I am new to the photoshop art side not new on the photomanipulation side that's why I asked. I think is very efficient especially if you can't draw on that level or even if you can draw on that level the 3d assets can be used as a previz.

@UnbeltedSundew Год назад

@@naive3832 Because the modeling and texturing and rigging is never really complete. There is always new costumes, new sets, new characters. After a certain amount of work has been created there may be a break even point, where it starts paying off, but how long do most comics last? Is it long enough to reach that point? Etc. etc. there's lots of variables.

@naive3832 Год назад

@@UnbeltedSundew i had typed a response but my phone went into power saved mode and wiped my response. I will get back to you in a good couple of hours.

@UnbeltedSundew Год назад

@@naive3832 I feel your pain. :)

@arsonistnpc Год назад

as soon as i saw "stage one: kitbashing" i knew this was gonna be _good_

@xel_nave Год назад

Bruh you're better than me at shading and lighting and I'm actually practicing drawing. Great job btw rly impressive

@cheeseburgermayhem9726 Год назад

he obviously has some background in drawing, no ordinary person can shade like that or add lines.

@dt295 Месяц назад

@@cheeseburgermayhem9726 well i mean, the photoshop part are showing his drawing skills, so he's lying.

@marshallwolff5966 Год назад

Stunning! The shader and lighting you used looks fantastic as well, I kind of wish some of the color was in the final product

@ArmouredAvian Год назад

I like the noir style for its contrast, plus it's easier. I will do more research into color grading though.

@AniMesuro Год назад

This actually looks pretty dope for someone not so familiar with drawing. You've managed to use your 3d skills in a way one wouldn't even notice it's all cg. The black and white ink comic really sold the look imo.

@kallupasvan4357 Год назад

@KaterynaM_UA Год назад

any person who draws, wound in fact notice but it doesn't take away from a great work they did!

@thelaw3536 Год назад

It's pretty obvious 3D. The computer draws in 2d pixels, but does so with such fine gradient and planes that it creates a very real looking 3d Object. The difference is often in how textures are applied and how 3 dimensional the object looks. His is too much like 3D.

@arachnoman7421 Год назад

Thanks dude, you give Hope of making my proyect. I am studying 3D animation and at the same studying drawing,but i always feels that my abilities in drawings is not enough for making that task. But seeing your video, gives me inspiration to try things in this amazing work that you did ! Great work !!

@ArmouredAvian Год назад

Thank you, I'm glad I inspired you, don't be afraid to cut some corners if it helps keep you motivated, but also don't neglect learning your fundamentals as they do come in handy. The Photoshop Filters I used on my renders are Stamp for contrast and Photocopy for detail. Once applied and overlapped use masks to clear artefacts.

@DavidBrocekArt Год назад

Not zero, you definitely have a great sense of light and shadow which is basically like 80% of all you need to be a good at drawing. Amazing work, I love the amount of work you put into this.

@RLeVeriteArt 29 дней назад

What makes this work despite you indicating you have zero drawing skills is that you have a fantastic eye for composition and chiaroscuro. The lighting and the staging is just done so well. Even the final Photoshop edit is neatly done.

@ArmouredAvian 28 дней назад

It's kind of an inside joke, as I have a degree in Game Art, so I know the fundamentals. But I'm terrible at drawing anatomy in perspective, which why I developed this method to assist with it. Learning Daz Studio is also really useful, if you have a certain pose or complex scene which you need a 3D previs for.

@Obliviousness Год назад

This is a process that is super cool to watch, awesome workflow!

@ArmouredAvian Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it. Stay tuned for more.

@AaronWeberGA Год назад

You did an amazing job. I have to say that first panel is really incredible though and is my favorite, I feel like it tells the entire story in one image. Drama, fear, threat. Its really great.

@joesire2977 Год назад

I tried starting a comic years ago and got burnt out because of all the drawing. I thought about creating a 3D model of the main characters and just posing them and then using a 2D filter. similar to what you did here. But I suck at 3D lol. Gotta get back into it. This looks sick.

@ArmouredAvian Год назад

Don't model anything, just use kit-bash packs and character models.

@joesire2977 Год назад

@@ArmouredAvian My style is a bit more stylized than this. with characters that I've created over the years. so I would need to model them in I think. But I'll look into kit bashing and see if I can use it for other stuff.

@darkgenix Год назад

There are so many hacks you could use to shortcut and get a desired result. Mash, bash and sprinkle your own salt.

@royaltyartstudio7727 Год назад

@@joesire2977 use CC3 to easily create stylised 3D characters...

@joesire2977 Год назад

@@royaltyartstudio7727 never heard of CC3, but I just looked it up. That would be great. but thats a lot of money to spend for a beginner lol

@atanthony6669 2 месяца назад

Phenomenal.. this takes as much if not more talent and effort than drawing.

@saierwe Год назад

OH GOD, I LOVE IT!!! THE MUSIC FITS PERFECTLY TOO, IT CREATES AN AMBIENT OF FOUND COMIC/VIDEO FOOTAGE, so original and fresh, incredible brother

@pilot-kfteamate5599 Год назад

Very impressive. I bet you put many hours learning about 3D modelling and render. Well, as much as someone put in learning drawing, but at least you can do both things (modelling and rendering good frames for a comic)

@ArmouredAvian Год назад

It's more about learning how to use Blender, which there are plenty of Tutorials online for, such as Blender Guru's Donut videos. You don't really need to learn how to 3D model because you're using premade character models. It's more important for you to learn posing and lighting which is quite simple to get the hang of.

@daru25able 2 месяца назад

that's crazy! keep up the good work, i am a fan now

@SapLow 6 месяцев назад

this is such a cool idea!

@sealishproductions Год назад

Title correction: "With SOME drawing skills"

@jameslovesart3408 Год назад

you're an artist there is no denying that

@thewisebaker4185 Год назад

I always wondered how we can possibly use 3D software and apply it to something as a comic book. This is actually the first time I see a utilization like this. Seeing your work process definitely hooked me up and made me appreciating your results.

@Matt-Guest Год назад

Just pick my jaw off the floor. I've been using Blender for so long and have never thought of doing this, thank you for opening up another world for me to explore.

@j.9481 Год назад

just from those photoshop edits and touch-ups alone you clearly have SOME skills in drawing/traditional visual art, even if just theoretical. congrats looks fucking incredible

@lotusfilm1 Год назад

Dude with Zero drawing skills but still drawing so smooth in photoshop

@1107emma Год назад

I would not say "zero drawing skills" this is amazing ! And you definitely know how to draw !

@user-we8hh4wc8g Год назад

Rather, not the "ability to draw", and composition skills and the basics of light and shadow, which necessarily appear with experience in 3d artist

@suckasstest123 Год назад

Yo. This is super inspiring! Thanks for sharing!

@JulesOtway 7 месяцев назад

Your posing is spectacular! You really get the emotion and momentum of each frame. Not to mention literally everything else

@ArmouredAvian 7 месяцев назад

Thank bro, I got a tutorial on posing in my video pipeline. So stay tuned.

@JulesOtway 7 месяцев назад

@@ArmouredAvian I really enjoyed the raw timelapse format of this video too. Just getting to watch pure proecess was super refreshing

@LafeSpace Год назад

The end result is dope

@adrient104 Год назад

Zero drawing skills but a whole lot of patience !

@thk03 Год назад

This is the most innovative thing I've seen on the internet this week

@dirty47 Год назад

Liked and subscribed! (Even though you say "Zero Drawing Skills", which is a crock! ;) ) Really, beautiful work!

@scottjohnnyhelgemoaune2951 Год назад

And now I’ve got a new favorite creator

@myfork6342 Год назад

wow,! i would love to see yer work in print-- so good!

@dkurbis3089 Год назад

Ok, now this is epic

@orpheuscreativeco9236 9 месяцев назад

The glitchy stop motion effect from your edits is very entertaining 😁 You should consider releasing stories/ videos of this type with the music going the whole time and occasionally injecting a single cel with ink and/or story w/ dialogue bubbles and the like. It makes for a very compelling fever dream 👍 Great work! 🎉

@ArmouredAvian 9 месяцев назад

I got something cooking for the end of this month. Next year I definitely want to make some short stories with all manner of effects.

@wereqryan Год назад

This is brilliant. Need comic book companies to adopt this.

@sekenjonathan Год назад

Amazing truly! 🔥💯

@otto1373 3 месяца назад

Opinión mía cuando probé este método en mis trabajos: Creo que optimizas bastante el tiempo si creas un escenario o varios en donde se desarrollara tu historia y luego le aplicas el efecto en PS, y vas haciendo el encuadre de la cámara para tus composiciones, te ahorras bastante el tiempo a futuro, obvio teniendo en cuenta que sabes manejar programas 3d, ya sea blender u otros. Luego puedes reutilar esos escenarios haciéndole modificaciones.

@pv8685 Год назад

i really was stunned while watching this!

@ArmouredAvian Год назад

The second timelapse video I made shows more of the process and its also about expressions.

@andr3wdurd3n84 Год назад

Solid work!

@MrSkyviewer Год назад

this is fire

@TheBadBone23 Год назад

So cooool to watch!

@PromptHorizon12 Год назад

My guy this looks AMAZING but when you said in blender i thought you meant JUST in blender, but I still gotta give a thumbs up for how good it looks.

@gregbeaudry Год назад

Wow this is *amazing*

@MaangePeenge Год назад

Very nice. Incredible amount for work, really paid off!!

@CShep99 Год назад

" " " " " " " " " " Zero Drawing Skills " " " " " " " " " " but seriously this is incredibly good.

@mohammaddh8655 Год назад

wow i was shocked by the result , well done

@aadiobooks Год назад

Fabulous!

@ogarga666 Год назад

I loved watching this, awesome process, congrats!

@ItachiUchiha-gf4fz Год назад

I think people misinterpreted the word "with zero drawing skills". It's true It's possible to create a comic style using 3D but this guy is a literal master of photoshop and brush tool. No such people with no knowledge of lineart and brushwork would be able to use photoshop like a 2d pro artist. Amazing work tho!

@Niyachelowick Год назад

Oh bro, this is awesome. I'd like read that comic. It looks amazing

@dario.brando Год назад

amazing work! if you have the skills to draw on top of what you're doing right now, you could take this to a whole new level.

@wvcarleton Год назад

This is amazing.

@rickardbengtsson Год назад

Pretty sick

@MrRoboticeyes Год назад

what the hell? Why is this so good?!

@royaltyartstudio7727 Год назад

Lovely ngl, but I loved it before the filter cause it looked more intense, scary, and more true to life... Don't get me wrong, the end result is dope too.

@ericjeker Год назад

Really cool! And I checked your Artstation, so many good things there too. Big fan! I hope you will upload more process video. Your workflow is really nice!

@skomakarna2684 Год назад

Nice work!

@manusiajawa715 Год назад

feels like more work that traditional drawing, but the shading and lighting accuracy is better tho

@ArmouredAvian Год назад

The process is longer than traditional, but for people who want to make comics but struggle with drawing anatomy it won't matter.

@ElHongoVerde Год назад

- I Created a Comic Book with Zero Drawing Skills in Blender... (Proceeds to master Blender better than me using the bathroom...)

@KKOLL007 Год назад

Great job!

@GregoryValentineAnimations Год назад

This is an excellent work!! Iced Sub and follwing with that bell thingy

@RayfieldA Год назад

Beautiful work!! You may not have the drawing skills but I see that it really helps to have good knowledge of 3D usage, right? I mean, even though the models and environments are premade, doesn't still take a while to move the background and pose the characters? I ask because although I draw, I've never used 3D. And I rarely use Photoshop.

@ArmouredAvian Год назад

The No Drawing Skill thing is more of a joke, since an Art friend of mine likes to take piss out me, since he's a pen & paper guru and I'm more tech bro. I do know the fundamentals and would have to in order pull this off. The Kit-Bash and Posing section in real-time was about 8 hours long according to my real-time edit. There's lots of free software out there, to assist you, for example DAZ Studio is really useful for mocking up characters.

@evansojuka1399 Год назад

I loved everything about this video and for that I just had to subscribe

@MrTynanDraper Год назад

At this this rate you'll finish your comic book in 10 to 20 years time!

@buildfalcon8117 Год назад

Very cool idea, well done

@BAGINAZARD Год назад

I saw lots of drawing skills here!

@Kaapstad420 Год назад

Good result.

@georgesupreeth239 Год назад

This is brilliant! Nicely done. Subscribed.

@That_One_NPC_ 6 месяцев назад

Been trying to find the SFM packs your using they're awesome!

@ArmouredAvian 6 месяцев назад

They're the Ultranationalists and Krueger. With a bunch of Tarkov stuff.

@deathpwnkillx964 Год назад

Looks great. I use 3d models only for frequently reused Backgrounds or quickly posing a simplyfied mannequinn to get difficult poses or weird angles right but i can't argue with the result. I would imagine it taking a lot longer than simply drawing them though. At least for me, but maybe im just not proficient enough at using 3d software.

@spaeseas.viz7 Год назад

Great content just subbed 🔥

@nathanlaidler9606 Год назад

Super dope.

@CraftedModulation2 Год назад

Awesome!!!

@fujtkrisztian Год назад

You should've made the blood red for dramatic effect. Would've looked really cool. Great work regardless man!

@FaisalIqbalvfx Год назад

I love This style of work

@egamaniHehe Год назад

incredibly

@vikingzeppelin Год назад

i need more of this. if you don't make more of these videos, i will.

@LeskiVFX Год назад

this is an awesome display of skill and creativity. BUT I wish you used red for the blood in the panels. since its the main "event" persay that takes place in this sequence, using the vibrant red blood would make a great contrast to the sharp black and white style.

@AArmstrongC Год назад

was expecting line art + toon shading inside blender. Nice result anyway! :)

@vorrdegard2176 Год назад

Your Photoshop workflow is nice I have been looking for a way to make comic like art but too lazy to draw I wanted to use 3D characters for the lineart or possibly the whole result

@ArmouredAvian Год назад

I've just uploaded a follow-up video to this one with an extended Photoshop Section.

@slamasnack7522 Год назад

that's a really clever way to use blender, nice work

@filipemecenas Год назад

Insane

@VCRZone1992 Год назад

I'd love to see a more detailed tutorial on the photoshop process I couldn't keep up with it even fully slowed down and i have been looking for something like this for a long time! Subbed. Thanks.

@ArmouredAvian Год назад

It's quite simple, you have 3 renders, One has a Stamp filter applied to it and the second Photocopy filter. Use Levels to flatten out Photocopy render. Then you remove all the white backgrounds and use your third render as a base to trace over. All you got left to do is remove artefacts.

@VCRZone1992 Год назад

@@ArmouredAvian thanks so much!

@kanag8133 Год назад

Well you did the shadow and hatchings so… its not a “zero” drawing skills. Good job on this bro

@blok1008 Год назад

for someone who dosent know how to draw, you did a pretty good job, with the black and whites

@sketsakafit3733 Год назад

Final results are so dope. Although he did have a drawing skills to finalize the photoshop phase.

@nurb2kea 6 месяцев назад

Well done! 🙂

@ArmouredAvian 6 месяцев назад

Thank you, only 200 views away from 100,000 Pretty crazy.

@hammerheadcorvette4 Год назад

There's actually an infinite amount of shots here. Also would like to add if you are aware of Grease Pencil? It can add to your creativity here. Amazing work. Thanks

@ArmouredAvian Год назад

Bro, if you read comments everyone is saying use a Shader or use the Grease Pencil. The only thing the Grease Pencil does is convert polygons into lines. It does not however convert Normal map textures into line. Which is why I'm using a Photoshop filter so all the texture detail can be converted into line art.

@hammerheadcorvette4 Год назад

@@ArmouredAvian Understood. Amazing work, and hat's off to you for this. Hope to see more !

@emmanuelzah Год назад

Genius, thak for sharing

@timelineeditzktmwork3807 Год назад

🤩🤩🤩 superb

@agyab_cg Год назад

such a great techniques man👍

@Dougthecoal Год назад

Loved your work looks amazing. Just wondering why didn’t you use a toon shader/ color ramp on your material in blender? Would have saved you shading them in gray tones.

@junk1000junk Год назад

excellent

@WAR_1933 Год назад

great use tools

@WAM3R Год назад

wooow this is insane. :D

@Morristlm Год назад

This is fantastic work. BTW there are "line art" material shaders for Blender, tons actually. Some even have the halftone or duo tone shading styles. Maybe see about adding some of those, it could speedup your workflow tremendously. Maybe you want to maintain more control in post production.

@ArmouredAvian Год назад

I've looked at them, The main problem with line art shaders / toon shaders is that they don't account for normal map information which is important for character models, so end up with projections over low poly mesh. Also there are a lot of materials in modern character assets so it takes too much time to replace them.