Do you remember “Space Jam” ? It may not been the best movie  ever, but it had something fascinating hidden inside, and that is LUMO.

LUMO was, back then, a new computer based system.

It  allowed to shade cartoons in a way that looked almost like

“Who Framed Roger Rabbit”, only that it no longer required ultra fancy equipment, plus the postpro crew stopped tearing off their clothes in despair.

Now fast forward till 2016, and picture Spirit’s determined face, while looking at that old 90’s concept of automation and promising herself shel’ll never shade a toon manually again, like she did last week.

Shading takes forever! it slows down the process of getting a finished piece exponentially, for you and for me!. Just imagine, two clicks, and your character would be ready to be published. No eternal CTRL Z, no extra drop of sweat.

We  definitely didn’t want to use carding for Moon Rises, so that did it for us.

Half an hour later we managed to replicate LUMO In Photoshop,  controlling the light direction with just  1 slider, but it wasn’t enough, because generating the map was too complicated.

So fast forward two days and we created something new. Two systems for

illuminating a character, one for animation, one for illustration, which we

called “ROGER”. So with just a few clicks in photoshop , you get this:

NEXT SHARING SATURDAY: EXPLORING ROGER. A WHOLE NEW WORLD

If you wish to learn more about LUMO, you can check this link here. If you

find a way of generating those exact normal maps, contact us! we’ll love to see.

http://140.118.9.222/stan/www/paper/2005-2-3/Illumination%20cel%20animation.pdf

Patrons $10 and above  will get the LUMO PSD file and of course, an exclusive tutorial on how to use ROGER, which we won’t publish anywhere else.

PS: Terribly sorry for the double post,  honest mistake of clicking way too fast.