Arkham City Inspiration

[Tbone]

I really like the look of the new Batman: Arkham City artwork. Their use of whites is kind of how I always envisioned our artwork to be like. I've just never been able to duplicate/articulate it. Here are some examples:





Does anyone know how to produce this effect?

It's a white background, but the characters are also in white, but the shadow works in a way in which the characters are clearly defined.

[Manic Velocity]

When I was taking art classes in high school, one of our projects was to create a scene using only shadows.  No defining outlines or color of any kind.  Now I wonder if our teacher just had a surplus of black pens that he wanted to get rid of.

It's easy (relatively) to do when you're dealing with buildings and such.  The kind of shapes that produce predictable shadows.  But working with faces, or fruit, or animals is very hard.  I could probably reproduce it much easier in photoshop.

[odj]

Looks kind of like an effect on exposure of the characters with good lighting and a white background. E.g. (gonna do a few of these so I'll keep updating as I do them)

[Tbone]

Those look pretty good, odj! I especially like the Trooper!

[Adad]

Nice odj. I feel like the jedi needs one more color maybe flowing through her, or if there's blue (like her saber) in her outfit, though I think it's just teal and gold. Nice though.

[odj]

Nice odj. I feel like the jedi needs one more color maybe flowing through her, or if there's blue (like her saber) in her outfit, though I think it's just teal and gold. Nice though.

I did try putting some colour in her hair but it didn't really look right.

[odj]

Here are a few more examples, these show the range of how it can change depending on the lighting of the original image...

[Broin]

I really like that... Dark and Gritty but really white and really bright at the same time...

[Tbone]

You stole my words! Yeah odj, that's hot. I want to use it for something. Maybe we can incorporate them into our sigs, but if I were to get ambitious, I'm curious as to what an entire site theme would look with that effect. Like our banner and everything else.

[Adad]

Can you make me one of a hooded Jedi by chance? Or even just of the image in my alternate sig that is in the first post of my aequitas thread? I can post it here when I fix my computer.

[Adad]

I want a similar effect to the ones above.

[Arawn]

Really love the Lightsaber one.

[XxUnforgivenxX]

Sweet stuff!

[XxUnforgivenxX]

A little more emphasis on the dark and gritty. my kinda tone. but it does sway from the cleanliness of the cgi models and the arkham city concept art.

[Ghisteslwchlohm]

Dude, the way the lightsabers look is awesome. With the white saber and the black smoke coming off the blades. Very cool.