People cutouts

We're going to learn how to make 2D face-me people that can be used both in photorealist and non-photorealistic rendering. With this method, you can build up a stock of people that you can use, no matter what the required output is. The following are the applications for this type of entourage:

• Black and white with sketchy edges

• Colored with sketchy edges

• Textured within SketchUp

• Photoreal rendered

The following pictures of the same man correspond to these four output types. At first, here is a black-and-white sketch. The lines are not too crisp and have a bit of hand-drawn quality:

The next image shows the same jogger in a cartoon-style rendering. The lines in this picture are a bit sharper, but the first impression is created by the colored cloth and body shape:

One further step is shown in the next image where the jogger's cloth and body parts are created with a photographic texture. Note the realism that this further detailing adds to the person:

Finally, you can see a photorealistic...