Do Artists Using 3D Models In Comics Bother You?

[Timothy Hunter]

For the past couple decades, it has been commonplace for artists to use programs such as Google Sketchup for assistance on background and even characters in comics.

[OopsIdiditagain]

I see it a lot in webcomics and mangas. I don't mind it because it makes it easier and less stressful for artists to do their jobs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Sometimes the story is so good I forget to notice the artist is tracing over 3d models or photographs for backgrounds.

[Rob Allen]

Can someone post examples of work done with and without 3D models, so we can see what the difference is?

[OopsIdiditagain]

Can someone post examples of work done with and without 3D models, so we can see what the difference is?

Art with 3d models:

[CSTowle]

Eh, tell me a good story using words and pictures and I'm not going to care much how you do it. In movies CGI doesn't register as live-action in my brain, so any scene that involves it (like Black Widow and the helicopter scene) just looks like a human interacting with a cartoon and has the same emotional impact as a cartoon for me. But other than that, don't much care. In comics I expect most actions to be artificial, regardless of whether they're drawn/painted or computer-generated. Live pictures interacting does bump me, though (like some Kirby stuff, or the occasional appearance of a human's photo in comics).

[MRP]

"Never draw what you can swipe. Never swipe what you can trace. Never trace what you can photocopy. Never photocopy what you can clip out and paste down"
-Wally Wood

It's just another step in a long legacy of comic artists using whatever material is available (from lightboxes, photo-references and files of stock poses to now online tools and computer modeling) to make the work easier and quicker. It's been done by the best in the business and the worst, since folks started making comics, so no it doesn't bother me.

-M