Not a coding trick but more of an artistic hack: I used to work at a major video game studio where one guy in the building was moving from production to produc

Not a coding trick but more of an artistic hack: I used to work at a major video game studio where one guy in the building was moving from production to production as a "reverse concept-artist" I explain: Some modelers that design characters for video game sometime skip the concept-art phase (paper pencil drawings) and move directly to 3D CAD. But those rough sketches are really good for gaming magazines or online articles to show the progression of the artistic direction. So that guy's job was to render the final 3D model of the character in wireframe mode and then re-touching it in photoshop to make it look like an original paper drawing. The result was quite convincing and appeared in several magazines as the initial artistic sketches for the game characters.