3D artist explains why Arcane looks so good

It doesn't look good though, it looks like shit. I don't understand why people are into it.

The reason i watch arcane because jinx and vi reminds me of eve and grace kinda

True masterpiece

Arent those books simple rectangles with a hand-painted texture?

Mate 3d artist here! I always love the combo of 2d effects in 3d scenes. but damn the way they achieved that look as you said that those each environment is hand painted which is lot of time consuming but worth it.
what you think which render engine they used on 3d model cell shader material effect? or that stroke they added later manually hand paint like spider verse movie followed that method.
League of legend all cinematic are good they always present trailer artistic way which is specialty of Riot. if you see their Valorant game trailer they also too good.

It’s french production 🇫🇷🥰

What is the best 3D art app in you’re opinion for a beginner?

Pretty sure the lighting is correct, light reflects more at a shallow angle than from straight across, especially on surfaces with imperfections like cloth.

i just listened to a podcast with one of the animators and then watched your december vid on arcane's artstyle.
when i watched this video the first time, i just thought you were making up the backgrounds being painted, like i literally couldn't believe it wasn't hand painted 3d props but it's amazing.

1. Facial / Motion tracking
2. 3D Models made by 3D software
3. Standard Material/Texture convert to Cartoon Shader, Camera,Animation with Inverse Kinematic coding and Rendering all done with GAME ENGINE not with conventional 3D Software / animation

Just because everything has hand painted textures doesn't mean they are not 3D anymore. You're a 3D artist, you should know this. smdh

Oh THANK YOU SO MUCH BROTHER!!!

ahh thats why thx it looks awsome indeed

such a beautiful show

I need to find proof this is wrong, lol. Doesn't sit right. It would be such a pain in the ass to hand paint every shot. Plus it limits camera motion severely.

I prefer this over Pixar

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! 2D IS BACK BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everyone is so impressed with the animation. I'm not. As someone who watched over 100 Japanese anime, I have seen what animation is supposed to be. This it's not natural to my eye. Also, the characters remind me of disney movies. 3d is awfull

they change lighting positions often in animations between cuts to find good composition
this is a good theory but i think its just really smart texturing on meshes

as soon as you said alberto mielgo i subsribed

Two things (scratch that) three things I've gathered from clicking this video:

1. This person made an almost 2 minute video telling us about how the lighting is all wrong in two seconds of a scene.
2. There are a LOT of 3D artists out there. Hello, everybody!

Oh, and just because I just now noticed it...

3. The video's description was more helpful than the video itself.

I just want to know how to recreate Ekko's hair when he was a kid. That fro was glorious.

If I were Netflix I would purchase the animation studio behind this series straight away.

I'm a junior 3D artist and I have a question. The highlights in the characters are 2D or the lighting is made straight by the 3D software?

3D artist here. This explanation could not be further from the truth. Almost every object near the camera is 3d objects, just with hand-painted textures.

pro tip: never expect less from riot

really interesting :D

Fortiche Studio. French animation at its best.

Man, I knew that it had take a lot of effort to make Arcane look so good. But needing to draw a different background for every angle, changing the character model to match the lighting, AND putting them on top of each other is nothing short of impressive.
Although apparent if you look closely (and know what you're looking for), they did a really good job hiding it

Is this some new kinds of click bait?

The lighting argument here is invalid, he is lit by the reflections of the desk and floor and he then steps back. Lighting is also a separate department than character and background and animation teams

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so they do like houseki no kuni but way much better

but it really is amazing

Seems like title should have been why Arcane has bad lighting

NOT a 3D artist here, Arcane looks good and I don't know anything about animation. But still, Arcane looks fantastic.

this is very wrong lol

Ummm no man that is all 3d model with hand painted texture....that is literally the style that they are know for in there games and the trend they are best at. 🤦🏾‍♂️ Just like World of War Craft and the Spider-Vers movie. Do more research man.

Gooood????? It made me want to spoon out my eyeballs

How did you record Netflix .-.?

Klaus, Spiderverse, and Arcane are breathing fresh air into the animation industry and we artists could not be happier or more excited 🤩✨💪

the style of Arcane's environments is similar to the environment style of Dishonored 2; The style of Jinx's visions was probably inspired the visualizations of hallucinations in Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

This is why we need the dislike count back.

thanks for the insights - what an epic eye-feast this anime was. I hop you have a raaaad career Zeyu!

I just fell in love with the 2D and 3D blend of styles. I don't usually like 3D because of its overly clean appearances and really love the painterly textures on the character and settings.
Beautiful and inspiring!

the art style definently reminded me of spider man into the spiderverse, which is really relishing

Why does it sound like you’re speaking to an audience?

i am so interested in how they did the textures for the characters and how these react to the lighting. That cant just be projected.

He stepped backwards you could clearly see his motion, this is honestly your whole review? WTF

the sunlight on his shirt does make sense tho... It's ambient/reflected light. They just didn't keep it consistent (and could reduce the instensity of the reflected light a tiny bit, just a bit becuase the sun itself was intense).