What I'm seeing is that they block out the scene in modeling software, render it with lighting to get the shadows, then over paint that in digital painting software.
Drawing over a 3d model is basically the higher tech version of using one of those posable art mannequin things to draw people. Seems like a pretty good technique, but I'm not an artist so idk.
I have no idea if that's what they're doing, but the hars edges on some of the buildings make me think so. They could also be painting texture on the 3D scene itself using something like Substance or Blender's internal painter. But getting accurate shadows with a ray traced render is a great way to build "realistic" shadows on more abstract shapes.
The railings aren't casting shadows, so I think they probably did just block out the scene with simple polygons then add those later
What I'm seeing is that they block out the scene in modeling software, render it with lighting to get the shadows, then over paint that in digital painting software.
Drawing over a 3d model is basically the higher tech version of using one of those posable art mannequin things to draw people. Seems like a pretty good technique, but I'm not an artist so idk.
Cool! I love that approach. If I were a fulltime artist I'd be doing the same thing lol
I have no idea if that's what they're doing, but the hars edges on some of the buildings make me think so. They could also be painting texture on the 3D scene itself using something like Substance or Blender's internal painter. But getting accurate shadows with a ray traced render is a great way to build "realistic" shadows on more abstract shapes.
The railings aren't casting shadows, so I think they probably did just block out the scene with simple polygons then add those later