Toon Shader Tutorial

Some toon shaders


1. Ordinary Falloff material




Adjusting the mix curve will create a layered color






2. Ink n Paint Material




3. Mental Ray Toon Shader - other term as Contour Shader
Here i just create a new materials - Mental ray materials, then on its Surface Basic Shader, i just copy / paste the falloff material, then on Contour under advance shader, i selected simple contour. Activate Mental Ray as my renderer then enable contour under renderer of mental ray parameter.





Variation of contour line width


Max 2010 File here: dragon-toon.zip

Sir galing sir .. thanks for the share

The secret to the toon look is the number of threshholds (layers of colors in rendermaster speak!) Which is usually 3:

1. Highlight (lighter version of the Base Color)
2. Base Color or Base Diffuse
3. Shadows or Shade (Darker version of the Base Color)

Which means, as long as the falloff maps (Shadow/Light) is supported by the renderer (Scanline, Vray, MR, Finalrender, Brazil), the toon look can be mimicked.

v_wrangler wrote:The secret to the toon look is the number of threshholds (layers of colors in rendermaster speak!) Which is usually 3:

1. Highlight (lighter version of the Base Color)
2. Base Color or Base Diffuse
3. Shadows or Shade (Darker version of the Base Color)

Which means, as long as the falloff maps (Shadow/Light) is supported by the renderer (Scanline, Vray, MR, Finalrender, Brazil), the toon look can be mimicked.

thanks for the follow-ups and add-ins info vertex.
hehehe threshold pala tawag doon, thanks for the terms

nice. how are the render times? would be interesting to see how this matches with vraytoon

tfs rendermaster - we will try this method.

normally our workflow is to render one pass using the falloff material.

the toon shader is rendered as a separate pass.

mushroom wrote:nice. how are the render times? would be interesting to see how this matches with vraytoon

mabilis lang sir 600 x 700 = 35 secs, 2100 x 1800 = 5mins (approx)

wow! thanks po render master! im currently downloading the zip file.. really appreciate it!

thanx for sharing sir ronel.....

really really appreciate it too!!

abl_langs wrote:wow! thanks po render master! im currently downloading the zip file.. really appreciate it!

salamat sir, hope it help sa requirement mo.

cubi_o: wrote:thanx for sharing sir ronel.....really really appreciate it too!!

salamat sir sa pag-appreciate...... more to come...

Thanks for the tutorial sir.

thax Sir. for the sharing...

GBU...=)