Cartoonreyes

[Gary Newman]

Hi...

Anyone know of a free/shareware plugin/shader, that will produce a cell
animatio effect similar to that of cartoonreyes, for Max R3.1?

Thanks

GaRy

[devries]

I don't think there is one right now, but Blur in theory has one in the
pipeline they are planning on making available to the public.

[phlam]

I don't know if The Incredible Comic Shop, from Digimation, has been
rewritten for Max 3 (in fact I have never seen any ICS-made image...). But
Illustrate 4.1 (www.davidgould.com) offers that kind of rendering.

If you want to try this, you can make this effect for free, but it depends
on the kind of geometry you have :
- Make an 'Oren-Nayar-Blinn' material
- For the diffuse map, choose a 'Fallof' texture. Let's call it F1
- Settings for F1 :
First color slot : Choose a second 'Fallof' texture (called F2)
Second color : only a black color (will be the color of the edges)
Type : Perpendicular / Parallel
Fallof direction : Viewing direction
Mix Curve rollout : draw a 'gradient' that is fully black from 0
(left)
to 75%, and fully white from 75% to 100% (right)
- Settings for F2 :
First color : a dark pastel color (will be the shadow color)
Second color : a light pastel color (will be the hilight color)
Type : Shadow / Light
Mix Curve rollout : the same kind of broken bi-color B/W gradient.

Try this material on a teapot or a sphere, it looks nice. It is less usable
on sharp edges.

phlam

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