http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb310/Otaku42/Experiment11-Bunny-1.jpg This is a piece of concept artwork I did for a comic I drew a while back. I watched some videos os Eternal Sonata to see just how far cel-shading has come. The game has extremely lush backgrounds, and everything looks incredibly smooth and detailed, as well as bright and colorful. At the same time, I watched a trailer for a PSN game called Echochrome, which used simpel black and white graphics to create complex MC Escher style puzzles. This got me to thinking about the technology behind cel-shading, and wondered if the sketch above could ever hope to be rendered in computer animation? I understand the basic concept: The computer creates an outline by placing a shilouette of the object behind it. I suppose either heavy alterations or a completely new code would be needed, but does this even look plausible?

Probably. The real issue in doing this sort of thing is what happens when the scene starts moving. All of a sudden, your beautiful NPR (non photo realistic, the term you wanted instead of "cel shaded") rendered scene becomes a flickering, painful mess. I'm not too up to date here, unfortunately, so I don't know if there's any robust solutions to the whole thing.

True, I suppose that's what I meant. I recently played Okami, so I had cel-shading on the brain. The other thing I was interested in was if anyone would want to do a black-and-white game, in a true graphic novel style. What I mean is, instead of big flashy colors, everything would appear to be hand-drawn, and maybe even use traditional tones and textures for effect. I really wish I had some programming skills so I could demonstrate this...