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Description
Popular, (not so) popular
Energetic, shy
Risky, overprotective
extroverted, unsociable
Comedic, romantic (ugh…)

These two characters from two popular mangas (Azumanga Daioh! & Say “I Love You”) are nothing comparable when it comes from having two attracting opposite personalities
Tomo is a hyperactive girl who makes too many risks regardless of the consequences of her actions, and Mei; on the other hand, is gifted with a boyfriend and new friends despite being reluctant of taking any new risks in her life. (Wow what a duo)

The intention was to recreate the traditional cel shading methods from anime production and combining them with the visual styles of their original manga styles with the Into the Spiderverse’s (my favorite movie of all time and it’s sequel) popular visual art style, and by capturing the feel of 2D, traditional animation, rather than the use of computerized rendering. (Neither Miles, nor Gwen, nor Miguel cannot compete with them).

I mimicked the classic, air brush shading and highlight details by using real manga halftones, screen tones and crosshatching like manga artists did. However, analyzing the Spiderverse’s visual process was hard and messy (first timer) as the team behind it relied more on the comic book style, so I had to do a lot of analysis on how the manga style worked in order to make both characters detailed and close to both the manga’s original visual styles (I had to use less comic strip halftones to make the details dazzling).

Another thing to note is that both mangas have two different genres, so for Tomo, I used the design of the 2009 reissue from Kiyohiko Azuma’s and used simplistic details with minimal realistic details to capture her comedic, cartoony personality. For Mei, she is a very delicate, sensitive, yet beautifully strong girl, so I had to use as many details as much as possible to make her realistic, while staying close to Kanae Hazuki’s visual style. I used a lot of crosshatching to make Mei’s hair look realistic and use white inking to replicate the highlights of cel shading rather than rendering. For her clothes I used saturated halftones to look as if Mei is really wearing clothes and for the shadows, well, the process wasn’t was complicated just a mix of inking with cross hatching and haltones to create the feel as we are seeing her “manga” self.

With these two together, nothing can match them in comparison.

Description
Popular, (not so) popular
Energetic, shy
Risky, overprotective
extroverted, unsociable
Comedic, romantic (ugh…)

These two characters from two popular mangas (Azumanga Daioh! & Say “I Love You”) are nothing comparable when it comes from having two attracting opposite personalities
Tomo is a hyperactive girl who makes too many risks regardless of the consequences of her actions, and Mei; on the other hand, is gifted with a boyfriend and new friends despite being reluctant of taking any new risks in her life. (Wow what a duo)

The intention was to recreate the traditional cel shading methods from anime production and combining them with the visual styles of their original manga styles with the Into the Spiderverse’s (my favorite movie of all time and it’s sequel) popular visual art style, and by capturing the feel of 2D, traditional animation, rather than the use of computerized rendering. (Neither Miles, nor Gwen, nor Miguel cannot compete with them).

I mimicked the classic, air brush shading and highlight details by using real manga halftones, screen tones and crosshatching like manga artists did. However, analyzing the Spiderverse’s visual process was hard and messy (first timer) as the team behind it relied more on the comic book style, so I had to do a lot of analysis on how the manga style worked in order to make both characters detailed and close to both the manga’s original visual styles (I had to use less comic strip halftones to make the details dazzling).

Another thing to note is that both mangas have two different genres, so for Tomo, I used the design of the 2009 reissue from Kiyohiko Azuma’s and used simplistic details with minimal realistic details to capture her comedic, cartoony personality. For Mei, she is a very delicate, sensitive, yet beautifully strong girl, so I had to use as many details as much as possible to make her realistic, while staying close to Kanae Hazuki’s visual style. I used a lot of crosshatching to make Mei’s hair look realistic and use white inking to replicate the highlights of cel shading rather than rendering. For her clothes I used saturated halftones to look as if Mei is really wearing clothes and for the shadows, well, the process wasn’t was complicated just a mix of inking with cross hatching and haltones to create the feel as we are seeing her “manga” self.

With these two together, nothing can match them in comparison.