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How to edit vertex normals for Anime / Toon shading in blender? (Arc System Works-Inspired)
Heya!, I've recently been very inspired by Arc System Work's 3D anime models, their work in Guilty Gear and Dragon Ball Fighter Z is absolutely amazing and they blur the line between 3D and 2D nearly seamlessly. So I've been trying to figure out how to recreate it, but I've hit a wall in the process. I've understood… -
Re: How to edit vertex normals for Anime / Toon shading in blender? (Arc System Works-Inspired)
How would I go about doing that? Do you know if blender or Maya are capable of painting vertex colors as vertex normals? -
Re: How to edit vertex normals for Anime / Toon shading in blender? (Arc System Works-Inspired)
Looking at the Mental Ray shader setup shown briefly in the Softimage video, it's really not even painting the Threshold like I initially thought. There's an incidence node supplying some basic grayscale information based on the location of existing scene lights (lit areas will be white while shaded areas will be black).… -
Re: How to edit vertex normals for Anime / Toon shading in blender? (Arc System Works-Inspired)
Yupp! I tried that, it's good enough for clothes and simple objects, but something as complex as a face, that technique falls flat on its own, but thank you for the suggestion! -
Re: How to edit vertex normals for Anime / Toon shading in blender? (Arc System Works-Inspired)
Guilty Gear baked vertex normal from a simpler mesh. Give it a try if Blender toon shade can pick that up. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kIFTNf68_YU/U9X6RkBS3XI/AAAAAAAAAxU/rKllj06qsA8/s1600/060.jpg -
Re: How to edit vertex normals for Anime / Toon shading in blender? (Arc System Works-Inspired)
For what it's worth, the Softimage video doesn't show them painting the vertex normals. Instead its vertex colors, which I believe is controlling the 'Threshold' discussed earlier in the GDC video.
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