Help me about Cellshading...!

paradius

I'm looking for Max Plugin that can material object to [Cell-shade] likes Cartoon. Who know where i can find it?

Thanks Thanks Thanks!!
PS. sorry, my English is weak... I'm Asian.

MoP

What version of 3ds Max are you using? There is an "Ink n Paint" material which ships with newer versions of Max (version 6 and upwards, I think), which will do cartoon shading pretty effectively.

lkraan

Yeah, the "ink 'n paint" is pretty good.
I've used it for these 2 renders...
http://www.xs4all.nl/~tetsuo/images/Totoro_mei.jpg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~tetsuo/images/Totoro_totoro.jpg

Below some settings that The_Bird had sent me a while ago...

Illusions

FinalToon from Cebas looks like it has pretty good renders, but that one costs $$$, which I do not have, so I can't give you my opinion on it. The Ink n' Paint material may work for your purposes like has been said.

paradius

sir lkraan!
can you teach me how to modeling your Totoro and paste eyes, nose, mouse ,... into polygon?

I'm a beginner of 3D.

KDR_11k

It's painted on the texture with some polygons around the features to reduce the distortion from subdivision.

lkraan

What KDR said
Plus a good start is to get a clear front and side view of the character and use those as a background of the front and side viewport (either set them as viewport background or apply them to a plane in thos viewports).
Then start with a default primitive like a box or cylinder and tart chopping away
The nice thing about cell shading is that the texture of the model doesn't need shading at all. The Totoro skin is plain grey with the features like eyes, belly, nose and mouth painted on it.

paradius

Hmm, thanks about your answer...
but I... still puzzle and don't understand at all
could you help me by post some pictures tutorial?
I think i can get from pic better than word.
how to use texture? Do u paint in Photoshop? (I's saw in screenglue.com)

please please...

paradius

one more!
I very like your 3d GUNDAM model!!!
can u teach me? ...

lkraan

Here are pics of the wireframe and the skin...

http://www.xs4all.nl/~tetsuo/wip/totoro-side.jpg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~tetsuo/wip/totoro-front.jpg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~tetsuo/wip/totoro-skin.jpg

There's not much to teach since you just have to do it. Sounds lame but I don't see any other way besides...
- Find as much reference as you can from whatever you want to model.
- Get some tutorials. Google will get you there and here http://www.poopinmymouth.com/tutorial/tutorial.htm are some good ones too.
- Lock youself behind you computer for many many hours and just get started

darkshadow

lkraan, you are dutch??, i am :P, nice work on those gundams, the skins really add detail, btw can you tell me how to make the sabre glow like that? in the render

paradius

Yeah, I'm doing~! Thank you!

paradius

hmm... i wonder one... how do you create the skin?
draw in Max? or ?

lkraan

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guilty

Those glows? I made those with the standard Max [shivers]video post[/shivers] glow effect.
Nowadays I would have done that in Photoshop. All you need for that is a separate render of the beam and some elbow grease.

KDR_11k

paradius: Usually painting in Photoshop, if you lack that there's GIMP.

darkshadow

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lkraan, you are dutch??, i am :P, nice work on those gundams, the skins really add detail, btw can you tell me how to make the sabre glow like that? in the render

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guilty

Those glows? I made those with the standard Max [shivers]video post[/shivers] glow effect.
Nowadays I would have done that in Photoshop. All you need for that is a separate render of the beam and some elbow grease.

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thx for that info, i live in amsterdam btw