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Interactive comics: comic book-inspired games use different artistic approaches to maintain a traditional look within 3D.(Gaming)

Computer Graphics World

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While many of today's action-game titles are striving to use the power of PCs or consoles to provide near-photorealistic, interactive entertainment, others are harnessing the technology to render unique, stylized imagery. Toward this end, several developers are releasing games based on popular "old-style" comic book characters, and are offering their own interpretations of the classic comic book look using state-of-the-art tools and techniques.

Perhaps the most popular style used for comic book-inspired games is 2D cel-shaded rendering, which itself has been a growing graphic trend in gaming, with such popular titles as The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Auto ...

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