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Can't Draw? You Need The Inkulator 9000.

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the scratch-paper dept.

NTK was kind enough to point out the Inkulator 9000, software to render pen-and-ink style drawings from 3D meshes. NTK also points to a number of other handy tools and papers.

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  1. Re:tell me when by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sure.

    *(Google cache)

  2. For those fellow Maya fans ... by oostevo · · Score: 4, Informative
    I should point out that Alias Maya has a vector renderer, which is able to give almost exactly the same effect. And it comes integrated with it by default.

    On the other hand, this is free and open source, and looks very promising.

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    In soviet russia, You ask not what country do for you, but what you do for country!
    Oh wait...
  3. Re:So... by Spy+Hunter · · Score: 5, Informative

    This means you can "draw" your character once in a 3D program and then produce a million drawings by simply posing its skeleton in different positions or moving the camera to arbitrary angles. Especially interesting is the ability to produce unlimited in-between frames with simple 3D interpolation of object positions instead of expensive, laborious hand drawing.

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  4. Re:Regarding that brandname... by DarkGreenNight · · Score: 5, Informative

    inkulator looks like enculador, that is a person (usually a man) who places something (usually something residing between his legs) into some very dark output opening all humans have and that you can see very clearly in a much known webpage that starts with go and finishes with atse ;)

    Having said that, I must remark I have to be very sleepy, because I had not noticed this similarity until it has been noted.

  5. This name is not makertable name! by acz · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is pronounced too much like Enculator 9000...
    which litteraly means Buttf*cker in french!

  6. Re:So... by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Hmm..i'm missing the joke. What's a tracer?"

    As others have mentioned, it's a reference to Chasing Amy. The basic gist of it is there is a comic book artist in the movie. Somebody else did the drawings, and he went over it in ink. Nobody, however, was impressed by this because they thought inking was just tracing. The artist in question found this quite offensive.

    Sadly, as an artist, I sympathize with him. Inking is an art-form just like drawing. It's not something anybody can run out and do. Nor, for that matter, is it all that easy for a computer to do. Many have tried to make 3D renderings look hand drawn, and it is quite challenging.

    Gotta say, though, I like the results on the website.

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    "Derp de derp."