Cel Shading

[Chappo]

You can make your own with the ramp shader..

if that doesn't help... you can look at www.toonshade.com

or download some other toon shader script on www.highend3d.com

[ThirdEye]

Thank you very much for your help :wavey:

[Maya Ayanami]

there is a nice tutorial on the alias wavefron site you should check out.
the use the surface shader a ramp color node and several other nodes that I am unfimiliar with
it works good. did some tests with cloth. and looked nice

[Sammy]

ThirdEye,

99.9% of the 'toonshaders' for maya use the 'facing ratio' utility found in the hypershade combined with a ramp for the color. The results are poor at best I'm afraid. It will be another year or more before Maya users will get the Illustrate! plugin by David Gould.

The best bet until then is the TomCat toonshader by Patrick Jean which is different from all the rest.

find it here:
http://www.highend3d.com/maya/plugins/?section=paintfx

there are several threads on this subject also:

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47336
and
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36224

The beauty of TomCat is that it avoids using the facing ratio utility and instead applies the toonline as a post effect (a critical detail). In fact, the results aren't too bad at all considering it's free!

It's success is based on the principle that it applies an artisan brush as a post effect. So you have 10 times the freedom to experiment than any lousy facing ratio could ever hope to offer.

But alas, it too has it's limitations and the results simply don't compare to Gould's Illustrate ... patience is a virtue - or so I'm told ...

:beer: ,
Sammy
rhibit@lilypad.ca
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[stunndman]

mental-ray does include contour shaders - there are some topics on highend3d on this subject - though i'm not sure how well they perform

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