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manga-style

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Updated 10-31 12:23

About this skill

Manga Style

Value-first. Screentone feel. Panel staging. Distinct from full-color anime.

Tenets

  1. Design in grayscale values first
  2. Screentone / hatch textures sparingly
  3. Speed lines and emphasis FX
  4. Expressive faces / eyes per demographic
  5. Black-heavy compositions OK

Vs anime-style

Anime = color cel; Manga = print value language (can still be 3D color with manga staging).

Recipe

Target a print-value look: 2 hard bands, black-heavy shadows, desaturated to grayscale, thin consistent contour, dynamic angles.

  1. Cel material: toon_material.py with bands 2, rim 0 and outline 0.015, base color a mid-gray.
  2. Lighting: light_rig.py preset golden_hour for one hard key and deep shadow (grayscale in comp).
  3. Camera: camera_rig.py lens_mm 35, elevation_deg -5, azimuth_deg 35, aspect "9:16" for a tall panel.
  4. Render: render_preset.py stylized_flat, then comp_grade.py preset noir (saturation 0 = monochrome) with vignette 0.
  5. Screentone and speed lines have no script: use an Image Texture dot pattern with Nearest filtering as a mix over the shadow band, and radial line meshes for FX.
import runpy
skills = "<skills_dir>"  # parent folder of this skill (the plugin's skills/ directory)
target = "SM_Asset"      # object to style / dress
r = {}
r["toon"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/stylized-style/scripts/toon_material.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"name": "MAT_Toon_Manga", "base_color": [0.6, 0.6, 0.6], "bands": 2, "rim": 0.0, "objects": [target], "outline": 0.015}})["result"]
r["light"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/lighting/scripts/light_rig.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"preset": "golden_hour", "target": target}})["result"]
r["camera"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/camera-cinematography/scripts/camera_rig.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"name": "CAM_Style", "target": target, "lens_mm": 35, "elevation_deg": -5, "azimuth_deg": 35, "aspect": "9:16"}})["result"]
r["render"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/rendering/scripts/render_preset.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"preset": "stylized_flat"}})["result"]
r["grade"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/compositing/scripts/comp_grade.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"preset": "noir", "vignette": 0.0}})["result"]
result = r