Toon rendering test

[Heiner]

Hello,

 

i am doing a cartoony animation at the moment. I am pretty happy with what i got so far, but there are still some things, which need to be sorted out. For example, i can not get the renderer to give me manga toon shading and shadows ... doh ... and i used square, flat elements, to decal my soundwords on them (since i have no sound, this is a must). But even set to cookie cut map, the give me these nasty edges, which i can not get rid of. No, it is not the picture file, having inconsistencys in the key colour, i doublechecked this!

 

How do you like the crude style?

Heiner

[Heiner]

Here one more pic, on which you see more of my "Little Space Cop" character. I am working on him quite a while now, and stll, there is a lot of work to do, but hey, they did not build rome in one day, or did they?

Cheers Heiner

[Rodney]

Heiner,

I think you need to crank up one of the settings... I cannot recall which one.

Maybe it was transparency.... drat.... can't remember.

 

Right click on the decal and look for some setting that might do the job.

[smudge]

Very funky stuff (in a good way), Heiner.

 

Here's some help with the toon renderer.

 

-- with the sound FX; Try going into the models 'Surface' properties and changing the 'Line Thickness' in the 'Toon Line' properties to '0'.

 

As far as the Toon shading goes, did you;

 

A ) Have a klieg light to caste shadows with set up in your scene?

B ) Are your 'Toon Shade' setting set up properly in you model's 'Surface' properties?

C ) Do you have shadows turned 'On' in your renders?

D ) Do you have 'Flat Shaded turned 'Off' in your model's 'Options' properties?

 

These are just some of the culprits that come to mind. The two most likly are B or D.

 

Hope this helps.

[Heiner]

"Little Space Cop rides again".

Here i another still coming out of one of my animations with this character. At the moment i am quite happy with the shading of the charakter, but i am still not able to get some real shadows into the scene ... doh!

How do you like him?

Heiner

[Iham Wrong]

Everything is looking great so far. I really like the classic cartoon look, but if you want to punch it up a bit, take a look at one of your stills or post process some footage to black and white. B&W seems to allow you to focus better on the color levels and balance.

 

Hey, I'd like to report a nefarious looking alien character named Vegis in the WIP sector. He was acting really suspicious.