Painting your image
Using some painting techniques to create a conceptual illustration is another possibility. Impressionist painting characteristics include fairly small and slim but nevertheless visible brush strokes, and the stress is on the overall visual effects instead of details. Lumion has an incredible effect that reproduces some of these characteristics and it can be used to produce a visualization focusing on shape and color. Let's see how we can use the Painting effect.
Getting ready
Before starting, it is important to remember that applying this effect over other effects, such as Manga or Cartoon, will significantly change the outcome you get from the Painting effect. Also, you may want to search some impressionist paintings to see the variety of styles and how you can reproduce them with this effect.
How to do it…
To give an impressionist look to your project, perform the following steps:
With the Movie or Photo mode open, add a new effect using the New effect button.
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