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Tutorial: Easy cartoon effect for renders.

vrba79vrba79 Posts: 1,357
edited August 2015 in Freebies

I don't visit the forums as often as I used to, but I do like to contribute, when I've got something to share.

I came up with a nice little cartoon effect that requires no shader setups, or special lighting outside of the default D|S lighting setup. Just a few simple to pull off photoshop actions. I call it the "Soft Serve" method.

https://youtu.be/eyedMCwyUjg

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  • wsterdanwsterdan Posts: 2,343
    vrba79 said:

    I don't visit the forums as often as I used to, but I do like to contribute, when I've got something to share.

    I came up with a nice little cartoon effect that requires no shader setups, or special lighting outside of the default D|S lighting setup. Just a few simple to pull off photoshop actions. I call it the "Soft Serve" method.

    https://youtu.be/eyedMCwyUjg

    Works very nicely and initial render goes fairly quickly once all of the lights are deleted. Thanks for sharing!

    -- Walt Sterdan

  • vrba79vrba79 Posts: 1,357
    wsterdan said:
    vrba79 said:

    I don't visit the forums as often as I used to, but I do like to contribute, when I've got something to share.

    I came up with a nice little cartoon effect that requires no shader setups, or special lighting outside of the default D|S lighting setup. Just a few simple to pull off photoshop actions. I call it the "Soft Serve" method.

    https://youtu.be/eyedMCwyUjg

    Works very nicely and initial render goes fairly quickly once all of the lights are deleted. Thanks for sharing!

    -- Walt Sterdan

    You're very welcome! I had the post work figured out for several months, but when applied to my renders they always lost too much detail. Something about using that default lighting setup agrees more with it. Here's one of the comparisons I did. On the left is with the lighting deleted, as prescribed in my tutorial, on the right is with an AO/IBL setup. With the lights deleted, not only is the render time rediculously faster, but it looks way better with the post work applied than the other.

     

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  • ModernWizardModernWizard Posts: 850

    Nice... I value speed of render over realism of lights, and I've been looking for a quick, easy comic effect. I'll have to try this.

     

    --MW

     

  • vrba79vrba79 Posts: 1,357
    ModernWizard said:

    Nice... I value speed of render over realism of lights, and I've been looking for a quick, easy comic effect. I'll have to try this.

     

    --MW

     

    Thanks! Feel free to improve upon it, if you see fit.

  • carol leecarol lee Posts: 14

    The Cartoon effect is Awesomesmiley I can't wait to try ityes Thanks for sharing=-)

  • SadnicSadnic Posts: 64

    Welp, your video has been deleted, and I'm in need of a cartoon effect for my renders, I tried LineRender9000 but my computer crashes so..could you reupload your video?

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