Cinema 4D Tutorial - Creating Blueprint Style Renders Using Sketch & Toon

[@gordacapivara]

I can't thank you enough for this. It's the EXACT look I need to apply for a clients project. Thanks a million! Here's a cookie. Cheers!

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This has been up for 5 hours and already a dislike. C’mon. People. If you don’t like him, leave him alone. He’s a great guy giving you new FREE content.

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Like I always say, dislikers gonna dislike! :) thanks for watching and your support!

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[@mpbMKE]

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[@safwanulferdous916]

Thank you for the awesome tutorial and for using my model! Happy to see my model being used by great artist like you!

[@eyedesyn]

Safwan Ul Ferdous the model was amazing! Thanks so much for your generosity in sharing the model for folks to use!

[@safwanulferdous916]

eyedesyn you are most welcome! And I should be thanking you for using my model for your tutorial. I am big fan of your works and I am very happy to see this happening! Keep making awesome content!

[@eyedesyn]

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[@sethalbee923]

The tips and tricks on removing the "flicker" was a game changer. Thanks.

[@ignaciosagrario]

Totally! 21:56 and 28:40

[@bartrcki9774]

Loving it !!!! Just done one on a Technics 1210 deck. Many THANKS!

[@k4824l]

Another amazing tutorial from the Master of Cell Shading.

[@eyedesyn]

k4824l thanks so much! :)

[@volkerneuhaus565]

Once again EJ saved my life! Thanks a lot for this helpful video, I researched for hours because my STEP import renders not as expected. Now I know why. Great tutorial - as all of yours are!

[@eyedesyn]

awesome to hear! thanks for watching!

[@梅俊锋]

Thank you for video, which made me learn. I hope to see more tutorials later. Thank you EJ.

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks very much for watching!

[@kasperrubin5754]

Should have known this two months ago. Great tutorial!

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for watching! :)

[@Asa-w1ns]

You are the man, thanks for this. Any idea how to get only sketch? I would like to save out an outline with a transparent background. I just cannot find a way to make the object transparent.

[@eyedesyn]

So there is a way to do this with outlines only - check out this tutorial kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHbPXpWuYtaYhdk

[@jedezign1]

Awesome! This will be very helpful. Thanks EJ!

[@eyedesyn]

I hope it is! Thanks for watching!

[@NgHongLam]

AJ, you have the best skin on the world of youtube tutorial, as well as your teaching skill. :))

[@eyedesyn]

You're the best! Thanks for watching!

[@dmellis]

I knew most of these settings but there was a lot of things I learned. How to control the hidden lines was something I was using the atom array as a workaround. To avoid flicker I was disabling Strokes in my materials altogether instead of trying some of the adjustments in the tutorial. There was also a lot of control tips about phong angle settings here I never knew. I put a ton of notes in an annotation tag so I remember.

[@eyedesyn]

Thats awesome to hear you learned some new techniques! I know flickering lines are always a difficult thing to remove! How were you using the Atom Array?

[@dmellis]

@@eyedesyn I used the atom array in any situation I wanted to see internal lines. I wasn't aware of the hidden line setting. When I finally rendered the model, I go some flickering. I even tried disabling Strokes altogether in my materials. That usually works for me. I wanted to keep that dotted line option though. This one was a challenge because the model was so complex. I'll take a look at your final model I downloaded and see how that works.

[@eyedesyn]

cool hope its helpful!

[@marcswanson9507]

Great tutorial (as always), E.J.! The links got me right to what I needed to know. Thanks!

[@dwayngrech]

THANK YOU!!! Love your videos.

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for watching!

[@sky_motion]

You are the best! Thank you! It is, really, what I am looked for.

[@eyedesyn]

Glad it helped!

[@maysgrafx]

great collection of tips n tricks! thanks so much!

[@eyedesyn]

happy to hear it! thanks for watching! :)

[@subhoghatak]

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[@eyedesyn]

hahaha thanks so much man for supporting me throughout the years! really appreciate it! i will buy you a nice wine if i ever meet you! :)

[@tiorimas]

Thanks for this tutorial, EJ! Greetings from London.

[@eyedesyn]

Cheers Pedro! Thanks for watching!

[@julianx16]

i will always be amaze by the control you have with the tool. amazing as always. thanks for sharing this

[@eyedesyn]

Sketch & Toon is pretty awesome when you demystify all the settings! Enjoy!

[@UmerFarooq-jy7jo]

Eye candy tutorial!

[@frankwagenknecht6459]

Very Helpful as usual. Thank you.

[@eyedesyn]

Stoked to hear it! Thanks for watching!

[@yousefzarka8797]

Another aawesome tutorial EJ, thanks again for all your efforts! I would love to see your take on "whiteboard" style animations in C4D using sketch and Toon.

[@eyedesyn]

Yousef Zarka I actually already have a chalk board render tutorial that should be helpful!

[@mwmingram]

Brilliant...as always. Thanks EJ.

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks again! Thanks for watching!

[@abobadrm]

Thanks for all you do.

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for watching!

[@nuande]

Thank you so much! The whole Internet was too stupid for a solution :D

[@latibes]

Great tutorial! Learnt a lot from this

[@barco10001]

Thanks for the tutorial!

[@eyedesyn]

thanks for watching!

[@vladan.Poison]

EJ that was amazing !!! Next time be gentle on warp stabilizer of your footage .

[@eyedesyn]

vladan m I know it was a bit too heavy handed...but the original footage was rough! Down side of recording away from my office!

[@RobertYarde]

Really great, inspiring stuff!

[@pauloflatau]

I LOVE IT. Looks like particles!

[@eyedesyn]

totally does! thanks for watching! :)

[@diogoalbuquerque6478]

Another amazing tutorial. Thank you :)

[@eyedesyn]

thanks for watching!

[@LoganPinney]

Thank you so much EJ. I am loving C4D basecamp and eyedesyn supplements that material so well! This is something I have wanted to learn for a long time (sketch and toon) I'll be going to your prior tutorials now :) Have a great Easter weekend EJ! IG tag coming !!!

[@eyedesyn]

dude thats so cool you're in c4d basecamp too! you're gonna be sick of me soon! lol thanks for your support and hope you enjoy the course! can't wait to see what you make! :)

[@LoganPinney]

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[@mpbMKE]

Woo, exactly what I needed!

[@eyedesyn]

happy to hear it man! thank you for watching!

[@dimpo87]

Great Tutorial! Thank you so much for dooing it!

[@eyedesyn]

thanks so much for watching!

[@abdulkarimarts]

Thank you so much it was so good

[@brandonkalyan]

Thank you EJ!

[@eyedesyn]

very welcome! thanks for watching!

[@mayykara]

amazing tool thanks for teaching , will sure use this one a lot :)

[@eyedesyn]

Very welcome! Hope this comes in handy! :)

[@ShutterlabCreative]

Amazing. Thank you!

[@MESHQuality]

Great one, thanks!

[@eyedesyn]

you bet! thanks for watching!

[@petrholusa5855]

Fantastic tut. Nicely explained this style. I am wondered. Some part of the object are not fully rendered. Any idea why aren't they? Thank you.

[@zeedot01]

Amazing. Thanks EJ !!!!!!!

[@eyedesyn]

thanks for watching !! :)

[@Wolli1973]

Perfect! Thanx a lot!

[@eyedesyn]

You bet! Thanks for watching!

[@m4r_art]

cool tut!

[@eyedesyn]

thank you!!!

[@gift9729]

awesome! thank you :)

[@eyedesyn]

very welcome, thanks for watching!

[@vyouttar]

Man!! you r the best. this is very helpful

[@eyedesyn]

super pumped to hear that! thanks for watching!

[@prostymi.slovami.]

Привет! Расскажите про черные дыры!

[@letslearnguitar4846]

Thanks bro!!

[@eyedesyn]

very welcome! thanks for watching!

[@aprasad014]

Thats so gooooooooooood ! I can't wait to try it...

[@eyedesyn]

Enjoy!!! Thanks for watching!

[@BoxofDemons]

Great video! TY

[@kalki456]

can u please tell how to make transparent water glass in toon shader? in cinema 4d

[@modernodj]

Good tutorial! Thnx

[@eyedesyn]

thanks for watching!!

[@ShutterlabCreative]

Thanks for the tutorial! If I would like outlines only, how do I remove the "fill" portion of the material? Edit: Ah I see. It's under the shading tab in sketch/toon render settings. Cheers

[@ahmedshakib3883]

Very nice.Thank you.

[@eyedesyn]

Ahmed shakib very welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@deyno0588]

example. Anyway, tNice tutorials video is very simple and helpful, thanks mate!

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for the tNice commentng

[@ShutterlabCreative]

I'm working with the Cineware plugin and I'd like to composite with effects like Stardust using the OBJ motion parameters from Cinema 4D. Do you have a tutorial on how to achieve this? That is, how to port object positioning data from Cinema 4D to After Effects?

[@kartiksingh2943]

Hi EJ, i want only stroke for Fui. So i don't need a background. how can i get only stroke ?

[@eyedesyn]

you can turn off the background & color altogether in the sketch & toon options and youll then be left with just the lines!

[@silverblank1139]

your head is very wobbly, is that warp stabilizer 😜

[@eyedesyn]

maybe...or maybe YOUR DRUNK!...or maybe i was.... :)

[@BoxofDemons]

Awesome any way to render this in redshift?

[@jonald2010]

Hello EJ, can you do manga style but animated character.

[@eyedesyn]

jonald lalas manga style is all about the cel shading! Got a tutorial up all about that already with the Link character!

[@rf-media-production]

Where can I find the sketch material in version 24?

[@nti1656]

Is there any way you can make the lines thicker? Please help a niqqa out. thanks!

[@kuaikuaiyu4903]

I like your video，I have a question,how render opacity???

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks! You mean how to render out the lines with Alpha? I cover that towards the end of the tutorial, render out the Post Effects multipass and it will render out each line type for compositing in AE where you can adjust the opacity of each! Hope that answers your question!

[@kuaikuaiyu4903]

@@eyedesyn OK,thank you

[@rebeldesigner]

Dear @eyedesyn... I am trying to render a football hitting the goal... everything is perfect but just one issue... I cant see the football from the net... as net is rendered with background color so anything behind it is not showing... how can I actually render only lines of net without any background fill... basically I want to render the net movement on transparent so what ever I put in the background is visible from the net lines... is it possible?

[@pavellebedev2587]

Спасибо, бро!

[@briantriesart]

Thank u!

[@eyedesyn]

You're welcome!

[@mikeridolfi8603]

For some reason, my PC only runs at 10% load when I use this technique. It's taking forever to generate the lines, but then the frame instantly appears when done in the render viewer. I'm not sure why it's not using more resources and being so slow.

[@eyedesyn]

One of the downsides of Sketch & Toon lines is it's not multithreaded so it won't take full advantage of your processing power, unfortunately. Go bug MAXON about updating it! :)

[@mikeridolfi8603]

@@eyedesyn That's... annoying. Regardless, it's worth it for the look. The videos on Real Engineering are about to jump in quality 10x.

[@eyedesyn]

I've been crossing my fingers for awhile that they'd update Sketch & Toon but I feel the way the industry is going they're not going to be updating any of their older renderers like Sketch & Toon...here's hoping with the Redshift acquisition that some kind of toon/sketch shader is added

[@dmellis]

@@eyedesyn I've been very impressed by the look of Arnold's Toon shader.

[@faharanoeliahjohnson3619]

Hi, I have a question, I am trying to export my sketch & toon animation. The result is I only able to export image. It won't export mp4

[@faharanoeliahjohnson3619]

It only export the blueprint image not the animation itself. Thanks

[@dapa6168]

can someone tell me what tutorial I should watch when I need to know more about those line/stroke-styles? it is mentioned that there is a more detailed video about that topic and I dont know which one :0 thanks!

[@eyedesyn]

Check the description, I have a link to a playlist full of sketch and toon tutorials! And heres a good one:

[@magicdog5623]

Im using cinema 4d 2025 with a 14th gen i9 and rtx 4090 and sketch and toon is not responding with the interactive render window. It should be updating in real time but its not. Any ideas what could be happening?

[@laurent_gontier]

Hi Thank you for the tutorial ! I also bought the file because I planed to make a blueprint render of a spherical panorama but it appears that it won't work with this kind of render. Is there a way to adapt your preset to this kind of job ?

[@EMVF]

so cool!!!!!!

[@eyedesyn]

glad you think so! :)

[@petrholusa5855]

Hi EJ, tutorial looks good but I can't open specific step file in C4D r19. It says unknown file. :(

[@petrholusa5855]

Oh god, on MBP 2017 it takes ages on complex model. :D

[@petrholusa5855]

And other thing, the main render setting don't override the Sketch style tag, I don't know why. Any idea?

[@eyedesyn]

Hey man! Step files are only supported in R20 and above, you'll need to get a STEP to OBJ converter

[@deliatee4492]

Can this be used on a model that already has materials applied to it? I am 100% noob just trying to get this image done in C4D and when I try, the interactive render only shows black.

[@Fabitalism]

i am stuck at the moment you are applying the dotted line ... my objects does not show more lines.

[@eyedesyn]

you probably missed a step!

[@Fabitalism]

@@eyedesyn what could be the biggest reason? its either a stroke or a dotted line..

[@moboxgraphics]

@@Fabitalism I had the same problem. I think it was because I applied the material to the object. You don't need to do this. The material properties are all applied within the renderer

[@eyedesyn]

MOBOX Graphics correct, you can add the lines globally in the render effect like I show or you can apply the stroke materials directly to an object via sketch style tag and have all the same options there. Sketch style tags will override the global effect

[@chasegordon2539]

@@moboxgraphics Thank you for this!

[@NeonKix]

I love you.

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for watching!!

[@peterdunwoodie8878]

How to render in Physical

[@eti360]

Why is it taking forever to render for me ?

[@eyedesyn]

do you have a slow laptop you're using?

[@nanihothearts5]

· - · - · - · Dotted lines :)

[@eyedesyn]

haha nice!

[@PhilipDirven]

How accurate

[@eyedesyn]

Philip Dirven thanks!

[@psychod74]

i need to pay to follow the tutorial or i can do without the project files in following your step one by one ? :D

[@eyedesyn]

it's free to watch! you can build from scratch but I always like to make my files available if you buy me a beer ;)

[@dmellis]

That's funny. I bought the final project file too, thinking it was for the model asset. I didn't read first. I don't mind at all though. I feel like I owe EJ way more for all the hours of knowledge over the years.

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[@eyeidea]

Great tut, thanks!

[@BluXi]

VERY USEFUL TUTORIAL ! Thank you :)

[@eyedesyn]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!