Hello,

I want to be VERY specific as to what I want to do and what I need
help with as I have been having horrible trouble finding any
information on whether or not it is possible to perform such art.

What I am trying to create is an anime-like head. I am in the
planning stages of the model and would like to be able to have
the model as JUST SKINS. There are 3 objects in front of the the
blank skin-colored head within the model detailed in the
following picture:

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There are three boxes that are positioned just in front of the
head. These boxes are transperent. After they are transperent I
just want to simply "draw on" the mouth, nose, and eyes are
lines.

The Skin of the HEAD, meanwhile, will be just one color. The face
for the most part is flat, but the front isn't completely flat
(clever designing) so that you can do


I want to start out simple, how would I go about doing just this:

[IMG][Link to www.evable.org][/IMG]


The hair will be 1 flat color with lighting, and the head will
be 1 flat color with lighting, unless it is necessary to have
the detail. Here are the questions:

- Is this possible in 3D Studio Max?
- I want to program a "3D Anime Character Maker" out of this
beginning. How hard is Cel-shading, is it easy and how would
I go about doing it?
- Is it possible to have the three objects that have their
own skins (the nose, mouth, and eyes as transparent boxes) combine
with the final object to create one set skin?


It's hard to word the questions, but I hope you understand,
Thank you!

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