From the course: Blender: Tips, Tricks and Techniques

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Cartoon shading in cycles

Cartoon shading in cycles

- [Instructor] In last week's Blenders Tips, Tricks and Techniques, we talked about line quality and how to make your objects look really kind of drawn and cartoony, but what about shading and shadows? How do we mess with that? Don't fear, in this week's Blenders Tips, Tricks and Techniques, I'm going to show you how to use the Toon Shader. Now, first, I want to come over here and I'm going to turn off the Alpha. If you had this on from the previous week, just kill it. That way we can have something kind of nice. I'm also going to come over to my free style line and set it to one. That way, if I render this, I have a nice wobbly, but not necessarily, transparent line. Cool, that looks good for now. Let's come over to 3D View and smush this over here. Come over here and let's change this out to Toon. Same with the blue. Let's come over here, Toon. We can open this up here. Go to Node Editor, and right away you can see there's some simple options, so I'm going to just set this to a…

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