Heres a project that has been around my head since a long time, to take a drawing of one of the best Latinoamerican humorist and cartoonist: Joaquin Lavado "Quino" ( its mostly known around the world by its comic strip "Mafalda", if you want to know more about Quino you can visit his website: http://www.quino.com.ar ), and interpret it as a 3D Scene keeping its main characteristic an style. The scene i choose is the cover of one of its best cartoon books called "Gente en su sitio" ( its something like "People in its place" in english) printed around 1979, and i like it cause as in most of Quino´s work presents a balance between a humor situation and a human drama. all the small details in the image were took it in to account, also 3d modeling was pretty "loose" to achieve a similar style to Quino's drawing style. the scene was entirely modeled and rendered in Cinema 4D with some color correction in Photoshop.

heres the original Quino drawing:

http://homepage.mac.com/agell/cgtalk/Quino-drawingCGT.jpg

heres the wireframe and lighting study:

http://homepage.mac.com/agell/cgtalk/processCGT.jpg

I hope you will enjoy it as much as i did making it.

cheers,

Carlos