What you'll learn

In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a stylized cartoon image and how certain details can be cheated in Photoshop. Throughout these lessons, we will focus on creating a polished image of a cartoon nature. Doing still images for your personal portfolio is important because this builds a library of techniques that can be used later for production. By the end of this tutorial, we will have gone through all the steps required to learn the importance of each part so that our image is appealing in the end. Software required: Maya 2009, Photoshop CS4, ZBrush 3.1.