How to Create a Toon Shaded Effect in Blender

Sep 30th in 3D Art, Blender, Rendering, Shaders by Jonathan Williamson

In this beginner/ intermediate level tutorial, we are going to take a look at creating a simple toon shaded render for our characters in blender. Among the topics that will be covered are: basic lighting, creating and adjusting the toon materials, rendering, and composite nodes.

Author: Jonathan Williamson

Jonathan has been very active in the blender community over the years, and his main focus is character modeling and design. He has helped to organize and present two blender conferences in Montreal, one blender conference in New York, and returned two consecutive years to North Carolina, to teach alongside fellow Blender-artists at a Summer camp for junior-high students hosted by Red Hat Linux. He has also been featured in two publications on Blender, and worked to pass on the skills he has learned by producing training materials on his own as well. You can see some samples of his Blender art on his site at: www.montagestudio.org.

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khan September 30th

cool
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Web 2.0 September 30th

Nice tutorial, great work…
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Craigsnedeker September 30th

heh looks great!
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DJ September 30th

Seemed good but didn’t have the time to set and wait for it to keep catching up. You must use a different codec than all the others have used. I’ve never had that kind of problem with any other tut on nettuts – so don’t think it’s MY machine.
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Jonathan Williamson October 1st

@DJ, did you have this same problem with my Retopology tutorial?
http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/3d-art/re-topologize-a-game-ready-alien-head-in-blender/
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AzteKpr1de October 8th

This is just awesome! I was wondering how to make this effect…
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Nixon November 3rd

heya Jonathan,
can this setup be applied to a whole scene by any chance?:)
dunno if u still read along since i’m kinda late with this.
Thx in advance for any comment:)
Best regards
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