here’s an early picture that i drew for BLUE vol 2 chapter 1: it’s a simple surface, with cel shading and a nice (though primitive) color palette. some things work. i like how the base plane accepts shadows & helps frame the figure in 3-d. in retrospect, i should have used soft shadows instead of hard & the specular on the cel shading is distracting. it looks a bit better animated.
but — it’s the hidden lines and countours that tell the real story. see that cusp singularity? there’s a lot of mathematics hiding in a single figure.
