Mixing 2 render styles?

#1

Hey there.

I have a character who will be rendered using the standard Blender Render, but the environment he is in will be rendered with the Freestyle Render.

ie he’ll be a colour shaded character in a black and white line art environment, and he will also be doing things like picking objects up or asleep in bed (which would need collisions with the bed sheet and he will need to be masked somehow to have the sheets over the top of him).

So I was wondering if any of you guys had any suggestions on how best I should set my file/s up for this? I’m from a 3ds max background so was thinking of using a system like xref objects (ie the character in a separate file to the other objects but they could be referenced) but was wondering how that would work with picking up objects and masks etc…

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

#2

So what happens when the character picks up an object from the background? Does it need to be rendered in the character’s style or does it remain in the background style?

#3

Hey DragonSeer,

preferably the background style, thus it would need to be masked by the character’s hand, etc

#4

Here’s what I’m talking about…

Mixing these two images so that it looks like the characters are holding the mug and beer dispenser correctly.

Like this but with the hands holding the items correctly (keeping in mind I want to animate this)

#5

Could you use ZMask render layers for this?

#6

It looks like I can’t have one layer on with Freestyle and the other without.

I’m asking here to make sure http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?89986-Freestyle-for-Blender/page78

#7

Well in the end it looked like I could use groups to solve the problem (seen here http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?89986-Freestyle-for-Blender&p=1920614#post1920614 )

So here’s the final render…

#8

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