G'day folks.
First of all, I would like to say thank you for makehuman. I love what you have done and appreciate the work that has gone into it.
I have a request.
For my needs, Makehuman is more than adequate in terms of creating rough characters to use for a story board/comic strip. Which is basically all I am looking for.
I am a writer and I want to take a crack at writing graphic novels and I just need something that I can show to an artist and have them do the actual drawing as I can't do more than stick figures and I don't really have any interest in spending too much time on the art itself.
What all this means is that I am looking for something that I can do quickly and easily without having to learn an entirely new skillset.
Make human is perfect for my needs, to an extent.
Creating the character is very easy in MH, but then it gets too complicated with trying to install MHX2 (which just doesn't want to happen for me) and learning Blender, etc, etc. I am now at the point where I have to decide if MH does suit my needs if it requires this much work and takes me so far from my writing that it defeats the purpose.
What I need is to be able to create the character, put it into roughly the pose that I want and then export it as a 2D image that I can crop and paste into MS Word or Power Point as they are the simplest options for creating a comic strip.
If the image could be exported as a simple JPG, that would be ideal.
What would be needed is for the image to come across as the character on a clear background so that if it is overlayed on other images (such as backgrounds), the clear would not hide anything.
I have tried screen grabs, but the resolution is too low and I have to spend too much time in prost processing to get rid of the background crap.
I know that all of the serious graphic artists out there are now screaming at my evil request, but I am a writer, not a visual artist.
I know this is a reasonably big request, but it is make it or break it time for me with MH. I do love the simplicity of the program and it does meet my needs in every other way.
If my request could be considered, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Col.