Anim8or: How to give a 2D look to a 3D object (Cell Shading)

My first tutorial. sorry about having no voice explaining each step, but I hope this can still be helpful

Here are some links for you to check out
Anim8or webpage:
http://www.anim8or.com

Anim8or tutorials:
http://members.lycos.nl/jonim8or/index.html
http://www.3d-anim8.com/

Anyways
A little explanation:
What you'll do is to duplicate your object and using One as a MAIN object and the other one as the OUTLINE object.

MAIN OBJECT
we need to give to that one a nice "cartoon" look by going to the Material Editor and setting the parameters as follow

Ambience: 1
Diffuse: 1000
Specular: 0.500
Emissive: 0.000
Rough: 0.10
Trans: 1
Brillieance: 1e+007

*Note: you can experiment with this so feel free to use your own setting... you might find something better

Now the OUTLINE OBJECT
for this one we need to convert the object into a Mesh
and what we'll do with this mesh is to give it a material.. just like the the one used in the windows glasses in the interrogation rooms... you know... those that you can see through if your standing in one side but if you go to the other side you won't see anything.
anyways that's the idea so we make sure that we setup the following parameters in our material editor as follow:

Select "Two Sided"
Click on FRONT and make sure that
Spacular = 0.000
Trans = 0.00

Now click on BACK
and make sure that
Specular = 0.000
Select Black Color.
and apply it to the object

Click SHOW ALL
And after this
you should have your results..
the rest is up to you... you can change some of the parameters if you like.

Any questions let me know
you can also google:
-Terranim8or, and
-Cre8tor

These software are free and they let you create pretty cool backgrounds, landscapes and games. each program file is compatible with each other.

well thanks for watching and I appreciate any comments but the stupid ones.
Hopefully I'll upload more tutorials.

Thanks!

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Anim8or
• Cell Shading Cartoon
• 3D
• 2D

[Sacredheart193]

Uhm.. Kinda nice but.. I can draw that.. >_>

[mztguitar]

@Sacredheart193 Thanks for the comment and well everybody can draw a ball in this software :) but the purpose of the video is to show how to give a cartoonish or 2D look to a 3D figure.... just like the dragon ball Raging Blast game... it's 3D but it looks just like the cartoons.

[HHMovieProductions]

nice i may do a cartoon now....thanks for the tutorial.

5 stars

[mztguitar]

@HHMovieProductions Thanks! playing around with this software is pretty cool, hopefully I can load more videos... but I lost the software that I used to record this tutorial on a system restore... and don't even remember where i got it... the other ones I got are crappy and don't like it...

[ForUreEntertainment]

how do u get the grid in the background?

[mztguitar]

Go to file, click on properties GUI... then you'll see the options

[Frenchchikn]

This is really great work! I have never seen this done before in Anim8or. I am going to have to try this out in my next project! Thank you for the tip and help :)!

[nikkojohn9678]

i cant run the script

[Sacredheart193]

@mztguitar Kayz xD It IS kinda useful at like characters i guess =]

[mztguitar]

You're welcome.. I barely using this software too... so I decided to do this since it's hard to find tutorial in many stuff you can do with this program...

Also I'm finishing my first human body character but it's freaking hard for the animation...

I'm using brush weight but I always have problems so if someone has any idea let me know!