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Revisited that model and reworked geometry and armature. While doing so I wanted to test out how the new volumetric rendering works in Cycles with stuff like fire. The last time I used BI to render the flame and put it into cycles. Now I wanted to do all in cycles. Quality still seems an issue in Cycles as I could go up to 256 division levels and it still didn't improve beyond this point. I also wanted to reworked the toon shading and cell shading material. It's now all working on one single object without double-object tricks. Experimented here with a 3-level shading. I'm not sure if it's better than a 2-level shading. All in all I wanted to make a toon scene with dynamic poses adding some 'punch' to it. I wanted to place emphasis on the motion with the wing pose and some toon like effects. I though about using also a whosh type effect but somehow this didn't work well with a turn-table. Maybe somebody has an idea.

So here it is... 3D Render Turn-Tables .

The images in the preview are also here in larger size: image1 , image2 .

Also the same images without toon/cell-shading for comparison: image1 , image2 . Not sure if this one is better. I somehow like the look of the toon version.

So this is what happens if Charizard is again dosobeying. Who needs orders if you have a brain

I've got also some plans for this model and situation here but I'm not going to talk about it here

Description
Revisited that model and reworked geometry and armature. While doing so I wanted to test out how the new volumetric rendering works in Cycles with stuff like fire. The last time I used BI to render the flame and put it into cycles. Now I wanted to do all in cycles. Quality still seems an issue in Cycles as I could go up to 256 division levels and it still didn't improve beyond this point. I also wanted to reworked the toon shading and cell shading material. It's now all working on one single object without double-object tricks. Experimented here with a 3-level shading. I'm not sure if it's better than a 2-level shading. All in all I wanted to make a toon scene with dynamic poses adding some 'punch' to it. I wanted to place emphasis on the motion with the wing pose and some toon like effects. I though about using also a whosh type effect but somehow this didn't work well with a turn-table. Maybe somebody has an idea.

So here it is... 3D Render Turn-Tables .

The images in the preview are also here in larger size: image1 , image2 .

Also the same images without toon/cell-shading for comparison: image1 , image2 . Not sure if this one is better. I somehow like the look of the toon version.

So this is what happens if Charizard is again dosobeying. Who needs orders if you have a brain

I've got also some plans for this model and situation here but I'm not going to talk about it here