People cutouts

We're going to learn how to make 2D face-me people that can be used both in photorealist and non-photorealistic rendering. With this method, you can build up a stock of people that you can use, no matter what the required output is. The following are the applications for this type of entourage:

  • Black and white with sketchy edges
  • Colored with sketchy edges
  • Textured within SketchUp
  • Photoreal rendered

The following pictures of the same man correspond to these four output types. At first, here is a black-and-white sketch. The lines are not too crisp and have a bit of hand-drawn quality:

People cutouts

The next image shows the same jogger in a cartoon-style ...

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