Any cel shaders

[Tom Lunzer]

Here is a link to some free materials for your material library, one is a Toon Shader:bounce:

http://www.visualboo.com/html/freebies.htm

[ninjacore]

have u tried illustrate? that is more powerful than max's toon shading capabilites. cant rememebr if u can save presets or not...

have a look.. www.davidgould.com :D

[DgtlProgression]

cartoonreyes from reyes infografica is a very nice cel plugin, quite flexible, although it doesn't output to vector artwork

[mouj]

Max 5 has a "Cel" shader included, called Ink n' Paint, that can be used to create cell or cartoon shading pretty efficiently - it cannot output to swf or vector based image as plugins can, but it stills works pretty nicely.

mouj

[Tom Lunzer]

Yep, Ink and Paint looks great! Only problem with it right now is it is excruciatingly slow!

Illustrate, CartoonReyes and Discreets Plasma (which can also export vector files for Flash) and Swift 3D for Max,
http://www.erain.com/home.asp
Can all do Cell type shading if you have cash to spend.

[mouj]

Really i tend to disagree with that, i guess it might depend on how you're using it and your scene's specs, but in my (oh so humble) experience ink n' paint is quite fast to render, easy to set up and very predictable. :hmm:

mouj

[Ronski]

just to add to the list there's also finalToon, here's some line style tests I've done with it....

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/kieron/Cebas/finaltoon/tn_Linestyles_01.jpg (http://www.groundzerofx.com/Cebas/finaltoon/Linestyles_01.jpg)

Cheers,
Kieron

[halo]

that concept sketch would be nice with hidden line...can it do vector output?

[Ronski]

it can do .swf & .ai output but the concept one went to a single colour when I tried it, more info here (http://www.finalrender.com/products/products.asp?UD=10-7888-35-788&PID=37).

Cheers,
Kieron

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