Minimalist Flat Cartoon Background?


#1

I posted this in another forum so it’s copied and pasted

"Okay so I’m a newbie at Maya, I go to school for animation but I like playing around in the software.

I’m teying to go for this type of lineless minimalist (I’m guessing low poly?) type of style:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_8kIJlrrihnM0x1QTlTQ01Vbmc

I’m more going for the PPG, Dexters Lab type of look but just to get across what I mean I looked for more shows that show it off better.

I know these are most likely created in Photoshop, or hand painted/pastels but I feel like there should be a way to imitate it? I modeled what I wanted in Maya and didn’t like the renders I have (Arnold was too realistic and Maya Hardware 2.0 wasn’t really what I wanted)…

So I put the room into Cinema 4D! Did some high luminary cel shading and got this:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_8kIJlrrihnM1hUNFBlU0ZRMUU

As you can see it’s in the same value and it has the desire flatness but there’s something not quite right… should I add textures? Is there something I can do in maya? What should I do to hit it more spot on?"

(Sorry if this isn’t the forum for this by the way).


#2

I notice that there is no 2-point converging perspective.

I would try to recreate exactly one of the scenes for practice.