How to use the aiToon Shader for Maya

Using Maya and Arnold, I'll show you how to apply the aiToon shader to a cartoony pair of sunglasses in part 2 of a 2 part series.

[@TheLillianYoung]

I never thought I’d have a need for the toon shader but here I am. Tasked with an explainer video, using a toolkit that doesn’t have the backgrounds I need. I don’t have time to learn Illustrator but I know Maya. This is very helpful.

[@mycgtutor5845]

Happy to help. Best of luck with your explainer video! 🙂

[@cjartworks]

WOW thank you for this!!!! I couldnt find any tutorials that were as short detailed and informativve as this. Thank you. Just suscruibed :D

[@mycgtutor5845]

Thank you so much! Happy to help!

[@danpym3D]

Your tutorials are so amazing! I hope you'll get more views and subscribers!! Congrats!

[@mycgtutor5845]

Thank you so much! Your positive feedback means a lot 🙂

[@Sanjay-lp9dd]

Thanks A lot for this Is there Any way to bake This shader info Onto mesh?

[@kavishamutucumarana7037]

Thank you so much! Been trying to find a simple tutorial for this! ❤

[@mycgtutor5845]

You’re very welcome!

[@FEMDEXYT]

Cool amazing work 😍

[@mycgtutor5845]

Thank you Femdex!

[@sergyxyz]

Thanks for this tutorial! I'm using cinema 4D but this was still super useful! I have a question: is there a way to get way thicker edges?

[@deepakumarsahoo2023]

Thnak you so much!!😍!!!

[@mycgtutor5845]

Very welcome!!

[@grahamhiggins1816]

isn't toon supposed to be flat - im getting shading, and the lights are effecting the falloff of colour..?

[@Serpgamer]

Very helpful! Thanks!

[@guizik4]

Thanks a lot, great video

[@mycgtutor5845]

You’re very welcome ☺️

[@michellebriceno4869]

Thanks you so much, this help me so much♥

[@mycgtutor5845]

So happy to help!!

[@raulochoahernandez4474]

If I work with texture maps, how can I make the gradients stand out in the render? I have used a texture map in the color base and added the gradient but the gradients are not appreciated in the render

[@fundiefinance]

Hi Raúl, under the Base aiToon attribute, plug the texture map into Color. To have the gradient stand out, plug a ramp under the Tonemap. Make sure the Interpolation is ‘none’ for the Ramp attributes and you should be good to go!

[@joonjooni9672]

outlines don't appear, yes I have a contour filter, please help.

[@joonjooni9672]

How can I increase the outine width? please help.

[@mycgtutor5845]

That’s under “Edge” - Width Scaling” in the Attribute Editor 🙂

[@IvanRodriguez-op6gq]

hello! Thanks for your video, it's amazing! The problem is that when I try to save the render image, only the outline is saved :c

[@mycgtutor5845]

Should be fine if you save as PNG but if you’re saving as an EXR, I have a tutorial for that! kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4muipurgriEhtk

[@ericleong2731]

thank you very much

[@mycgtutor5845]

You’re very welcome!

[@kavipriyaegambaram5358]

soo useful🥰

[@aviv32]

im wondering how can i change the line width? the width scaling and edge opacity both of them seems to just changing the opacity without the line width at all...

[@mycgtutor5845]

Width scaling works for me but make sure your Angle Threshold under Edge Detection is low enough to define the edges.

[@aviv32]

@@mycgtutor5845 alright thank you!

[@guizik4]

One question, this AiToon shader, is it a way to do 2D styling in Maya? Because I need to do a job explaining this to college. And since I'm pretty new to Maya, I'm a little confused. Thanks for the help.

[@mycgtutor5845]

When it comes to traditional 2D animation, I don’t think Maya is the best choice. There are a few workarounds like in the video below that might help: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqLXhYaur7mkmdE