NPR Style

[ValeroStudio]

I have always explored ways to make my renders look more like sketches. I wondered if Chaos has every thought of having some way to render a scene using a more artistic calculation of lighting?

[piotrus3333]

paint over comped VRayLightSelect layers? math does not do "artistic" I think.

[ValeroStudio]

There’s a plug-in for Sketchup called Ambient Occlusion, how would you go about getting a pass exported like this? Is it really just a dirt pass?

[glorybound]

For stills I use this.

https://fotosketcher.com/

[ValeroStudio]

Yes, very familiar with this as it’s my favorite filter. Now my question is, can VRay give us a tender that we can plug into Fotosketcher that has lighting that’s not so realistic? I know, this sounds crazy.

[glorybound]

Is Vray Toon still a thing?

[piotrus3333]

There’s a plug-in for Sketchup called Ambient Occlusion, how would you go about getting a pass exported like this? Is it really just a dirt pass?

yes, just VRayDirt.

[ValeroStudio]

Is Vray Toon still a thing?

Yes. We have Contours, which is Global and Toon as a material setting.

I guess my mind is wondering if we can get a cel shader or lighting calculation that does something like the NPR shader in Blender.

https://youtu.be/t91X4eukZY4

look at these
https://blendermarket.com/products/komikaze/?ref=118

and these
https://eyedesyn.com/product/cel-sha...for-cinema-4d/

[ValeroStudio]

One more incredible one using Arnold.

https://www.arnoldrenderer.com/news/...-calder-moore/

[ValeroStudio]

Looks like Katana and Arnold was used by the guys that did Spiderman Into the Spider-verse. This is such a great example of non-realistic rendering.

https://www.foundry.com/insights/fil...to-spiderverse

[DCHA34]

Hi,
A long time ago I was using the Piranesi software from Informatix. http://www.piranesi.co.uk/index.html
It was really great.
But the development of the software seems to have been abandoned.
What a shame!

[ValeroStudio]

Ah yes, I remember Paranesi. That was very interesting indeed. Seeing some of the cel-shading stuff from Arnold and Blender is making me wonder if we could add some parameters to the toon shader to get these effects?

[ValeroStudio]

Here are some other very cool videos using Sketch and Toon in C4D... the more I see this the more I want it in VRay!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icUz2NDBz2A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8tq0tDh7mU

[piotrus3333]

Ah yes, I remember Paranesi. That was very interesting indeed. Seeing some of the cel-shading stuff from Arnold and Blender is making me wonder if we could add some parameters to the toon shader to get these effects?

I don't think there is anything missing:

[ValeroStudio]

I don't think there is anything missing:

This can be done in SketchUp as well????