The kellys - webisodes
in 2001 i worked on a project called NASCAR the Kellys. We used lightwave to create cel style props and sets for a web series that was hand animated in flash. I worked mostly on the first few episodes.
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My role was building out the sets and props - the most prominent being the race track and all the assets of the racetrack.
Oddly enough I was in los angeles at the time and this was the project I was working on when the 9/11 twin tower disaster occurred.
Lightwave again was used to create very nice cel art - Here are some of the dope sheets i created to approve the assets, my own format.
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Watch the first episode - i modeled the race track and a bunch of props and vehicles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaVpKGq4R6A
I created this garage set for a few scenes in the first epsiode.
this was the tower in the middle of the racetrack
first draft of the racetrack
Each prop was hand made by me for the show.
simple textures and good use of cel edges made these objects look quite good.
Some of the assets were found on the internet and tweaked into cel shaded look. No surfaces were left original.
I basically learned how to reduce poly counts with these objects so that they looked more cel shaded.
cartoon shading was a shader called BESM in lw v6 i think at the time.
even in lightwave 6 the cel edges were very robust in what you could select and not select.
the lowly door - cel shading is a real art to make things look hand drawn.