It's just a personal preference. I do say in the video at 12:26 that every painting software can get the job done, it's just that I like Illustrator.

Thanks!!! That's my new year's resolution for 2025.

For sure. At some point I'll go into it, but it's easy and straightforward, especially with Solidify outline.

@@Entikai I tried to do it but the outline gets out of sync and the weight paint on it gets messed up

So the weight paint of the outline needs to be the same like the mesh. The easiest way to do that is to use the Solidify for the outline. But since this is a simple character, you can just set the weights for it manually by selecting the vertices and assigning them to the vertex group by hand, instead of with a brush. I hope you know what I mean. That's how I did it for the video.

My new video will go up next Saturday, in 2 days. In that video I will show how you can do this same stylized outline with the Solidify modifier, and that will make it easier for rigging.

@@Entikai ok thx for explanation, I'll try

Any drawing app.

There are a few ways. Without plugins, you would go to the world tab and make the would white. But I'm using a free plugin called "Easy HDRI" which lets me do that from inside the plugin interface.

I'll soon start posting again. I have a new video in the works.

Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! And thank you about your suggestion, it sounds fun. Right now I'm working on another character. After that I'll decided what my next project will be. Kind regards.

You've figured out that shortcut "V" splits the edge, but maybe some other people are wondering the same.

@@Entikai ?

So for modeling the leg, the only tip I have is to keep at it. Eventually it will turn out good. You can also go to my ArtStation (google Entikai ArtStation) and then open the spider in your browser and use it as a reference. You will be able to view it in 3D so turn around and look from all sides. I hope that helps.

No, it's easy. I tested it. Just drag and drop.

Did you flip the normals on the outline?

@@Entikai yep the rest of the sword is good just the blade got some problem and is complete black

I should upload again in December, but I'm hoping to start posting regularly next year.

So when it comes to Blender basics, I haven't really planned to make a tutorial on that, since there is a lot of that already on KZbin. But it could happen if there is a demand for it from the community on my channel. Unwrapping UVs is one of those easy things, but kind of boring and repetitive to do. I think you will get a hang of it. Modeling the spider leg - yeah, that's the hardest shape to make, but it's not difficult. Just play with it until it looks good. And it's ok if your early models aren't perfect. Don't get discouraged. I have a hard drive full of my early models that look really bad since I didn't know what I was doing. But I just kept modeling every month and completing my models no matter how bad they looked. I also made sure to archive them so I can look back on my progress. It took me about 2 years until I felt like I've gotten good at it. But I'm still learning new stuff every day. Some people on KZbin get good in 2 - 3 months, I'm a slow learner I guess.

You can render it and turn it into a PNG sequence. In that case, Blender becomes better and free Spine 2D.

You can apply the modifier. Then the cube really becomes a sphere.

Easier, but not software agnostic. My workflow can be exported to a game engine and look exactly like this from every angle without any extra work. Just drag and drop.

FOUND IT!! haha

Try switching to Eevee renderer as well.

Still couldn't mimic the same results you have :(

Google "outline helper blender addon". Install it and try using it. It should work.

Yep. The good news is, there is a way to rig this art style with no problem. I will very likely make a dedicated video explaining that process. It's pretty easy actually.

@@Entikai well thank you.

@@Entikai Does this method (duplicate the object, resize, flip normals, backface culling) work in Blender 4.2 Cycles? I followed your steps exactly and the backface culling is not working. I can't see through the object.

​@@andrewmcintosh9832 It's possible that cycles doesn't support it, I haven't switched and tested yet. But the good news is, all the Game Engines do support this method and it works perfectly inside of them.

@@Entikai Thanks for the response. Yea you can achieve a similar effect with grease pencil but it doesn't work with the Panoramic camera so I ended up just using a curve for the edges. Doesn't look as good as your method but it will have to do.

Could you elaborate on that question a bit? Do you mean how I made the shadow of the spider? It's just a regular shadow. The outline has a normal material that casts shadows on the ground. Nothing special.

@@Entikai i mean: you have solid color shading on the spider. looks like the usual shader to rgb - color ramp stuff. thing is, having shadows on top of that tends to look like ass, so im askin if you just got lucky or if theres a light or render setting im missing.

I drew the shading myself, it's part of the texture. That's why it looks better then when it's generated.

@@Entikai aahhh. yeah ok cool. i was looking for ways to make shadows work with cel shading. alas.

There is an explanation at the end of the video.