Tomcat cartoon shader

[Bliz]

Seems to be a problem with the URL?

[mental]

had to subtract the period at the end of the URL :)

http://www.toonshade.com/
tomcat can give you some beautiful results and it's only $79 US.

[Wigaru Wiyamoto]

I did this awhile ago when the first demo came out:

http://www.ninjadisco.com/3d/dude04.jpg

[spyral00]

oops sorry for the link :rolleyes:

should work now:)

[spyral00]

and... nice pic wigaru. Can i put it in the gallery ?

[Wigaru Wiyamoto]

Sure, I'd love it!

[Levitateme]

wigaru, will it render textures? i am using maya 5's vector renderer. it isnt rendering textures which is a shame i never used it up until now, and it wont render textures. will this plug in do that?

[Wigaru Wiyamoto]

Don't use the vector renderer as a toonshader, unless you're actually outputting to flash. Just composite the outlines in a comp program.

Tomcat Toonshader just deals with the outlines (and is way more flexible and powerful than the vector renderer). You could add a brush to any existing shading network, in the case above it was a ramp shader, it could just as easily be a blinn with a texture.

[GrafOrlok]

Here's a little test I did on a already finished project, just to try out version 1.1 of TCS. Needless to say I just bought the commercial version today...:) I wanted a sketchy look, almost as every frame was hand drawn, so that all lines would jump around. I also put 5 randomized crosshatched textures in the shading ramp to get that extra hand-drawn look.

toonTest_LeadSketch_Divx505_nosound.avi (http://www.swedecreations.com/CGart/toonTest_LeadSketch_Divx505_nosound.avi)
Patrick (spyral00), you're a genius.

[Houkah]

damn that's friggin cool graf.

[Wigaru Wiyamoto]

Very nice Graf, that should definitely go in the gallery. How did you get the sketchy shadows under the chin?

[GrafOrlok]

Thanx guys,

The etchy shadows where made out of 5 textures (as I mentioned in my last post). I made the textures by using the same brush as for my outline and sketched a crosshatch pattern in a PaintEffects window. I then put these textures in the dark part of the ramp that controls the shadow in the shading network. I wrote a little expression to get Maya to randomly select which texture to use. Since this was version 1 of the plug I couldn't do a batch renderer, it would only render the first frame correctly. So I wrote a DOS-batch file to render each frame separately. This caused Maya to choose the same texture for the shadows every time (seemed like the rand function started on the same number each time:))so there was a little bit of hazzle to get the expression to work the way I intended.

[solun]

hi,


Here is my work.



http://www.anisolun.com/images/hero.jpg

http://www.anisolun/images/mon.jpg

[solun]

http://www.anisolun.com/images/robot.jpg

http://www.anisolun.com/images/mon.jpg




Divx Animation (http://www.anisolun.com/video/ch_id.avi)



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[spyral00]

Wow nice animations guys. Orlok (?) your character animation is almost exactely what I like to see in terms of rendering. I'll definitely put this on my website, if you give me the permission.

thanks anyway

[solun]

hi spyral00,


I just want you to put that on your website, it's my pleasure.

thank you.



solun

[GrafOrlok]

Of course spyral00! My pleasure!

You've done such a great job it would be an honour.
:beer: Cheers mate!

Staffan Linder
Animation Lead
Fido film

[KaB]

WOW, awesome plugin... going to have to talk my boss into getting this.

Here is just a simple test...

http://www.planetquake.com/kabalarena/files/toonshade_test01.jpg


Test animation with Maya Cloth... right click, save target as (http://www.planetquake.com/kabalarena/files/toonshade_testanim.avi)

[Kabab]

Hey how did you texture the cloth ?? not the outlines...

Must say this is the most awesome toonshader you should be very proud !!

[spyral00]

Done !

look in toonshade gallery (http://users.skynet.be/spyral/gallery.html)

there are also some pics I added some time ago, made by Duncan brinsmead the guy who made paint effects !


now please post more animations & pics !!!

[Levitateme]

man, i would love to get my hands on your shader. your gallery is incredible spyral.

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