Toon Shaded Character Guide, from Modeling to Final Shading - Blender 2.91 / EEVEE

[@Faircrow]

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[@gungriffon220]

Very glad to see atleast some answers on the face rig stuff. I've been dying to know more about how you're handling the faces, since most tutorials don't really talk about cartoon faces at all.

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[@justinjames3883]

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[@LightningBoyStudio]

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[@tintiny8903]

Purchased the toon shader and it's totally worth it! Thanks for making such a wonderful tool

[@LightningBoyStudio]

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[@matikaplun]

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[@LightningBoyStudio]

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[@YixoSuy]

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[@FriskAnimation]

I just bought the Shader yesterday and I'm enjoying it a lot with this tutorial. I'm looking much forward for the facial rig tutorial, is the one im most needing right now, i'm super excided.

[@tonyherrick7064]

I just love the stubble beard. ICONIC for sure 👌

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Perfect amount of extra information. Really well done, big teaching talent.

[@wowzers94]

I'm no expert in Blender, but I know enough to realize what you've made is really impressive! Looking forward to learning more!

[@DarrinNoNAME]

Yeaaah The facial rig explanation is a must.... such a brilliant method to rigging a toon shaded character.

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[@jackhancock9862]

This has blown my freaking mind! I need to learn how to illustrate like this!

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[@pyrstudio8669]

This is what i was waiting for to purchase the toon shader.

[@mrbear8390]

One of the most useful tutorials I've ever seen in youtube ! thanks a lot !

[@jackbarnhart4661]

I love this shader and I am happy with my purchase of it as it will be extremely helpful for getting stylized characters and objects off the ground in a flexible and efficient way. That being said however, the restriction the shader puts on you with how it interacts and relies on the light sources is.. limiting. Again, the shader is absolutely fantastic, and the work you put into it really shows, but sometimes there's no "one size fits all" for an entire scene. However I realize it's likely just an unfortunate limitation with how the entire shader is built and would require building the entire thing, that's definitely not my suggestion. This isn't deal-breaking, however, and I can't wait to see what is possible with this shader you guys have done. You've earned all the praise and I can't wait to see where you take this in the future!

[@LightningBoyStudio]

Thank you Jack! Yeah, we won't disagree. Our method is more than a typical shader, it's literally a completely different workflow, which means it's difficult to mix and match with standard shaders. We wish there better ways to do it, but that's the best we could come up with to get the kind of freedom we wanted. Our friends at BNPR are doing some amazing things with their new BEER renderer which might make this kind of workflow less fiddly in the future and give more options for bigger scenes, who knows!

[@jackbarnhart4661]

@@LightningBoyStudio You’re very welcome! I figured it was out of your guys’ control based on how it was built. I definitely understand! BEER does look very promising and whatever happens in the future, it’ll be exciting to see. Thanks again for this wonderful shader, it really is a miracle in the NPR world. Keep up with the great work!

[@Rare.99]

Very good explanation of the subdiv!

[@jenafierro1500]

I just did all the material tutorials! I’m so excited for this!!

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This is one of the videos I'll be re-watching from time to time, thanks

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[@DanielDalzy]

Guys, you're doing an amazing job in the entire Blender community! Congratulations on the quality and thank you for the content, thank you from Brazil! Obrigado!

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Oh gosh this looks insane!! I think once I get my head around you first shader series I’ll absolutely get this one

[@Klausebou]

Great Work on that Shader! One can feel the care that is derived from a production pipleline oriented approach in creating this

[@PanewsONE]

What a fantastic product and character. Beautiful! Unlike any too shader I've seen so far. So good!

[@isaiahdaniels5643]

By the way! You don't have to edit the geometry to change the outline thickness created using the inverted hull method! What you really want to do is do a weight paint and apply that new vertex group to the solidify modifier, then reverse the influence.

[@betafunk8472]

You are the first channel I've subscribed to. Very informative and I'll be getting the LBS shader now!

[@naschbear]

that is pretty awesome, all youtube,twitter,insta, etc. accounts says "for good Character you must learn to sculpt" but not every person like sculpting (ME) and that is Amazing all Turtorials really helpful and i cant wait to see the Face Expressions Turtorial or more the Workflow behind it. as a total Blender Newbie is that the guideline i need Thank you.

[@mitchcnnn]

the anticipation for the next video is just uncontainable!

[@ghostwarrior-ni1xb]

9:00 boi that Boolean mouth and eyes is pretty helpful now I will implement it in my work thanks for sharing it

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[@christianbelko]

Mate you explain everything what i have learn last month in just 5 mins 😂😂 amazing work!

[@kellyjohnson768]

we are seeing other faces of LBS besides just david now! The homies branching out!

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You guys are putting out quality videos here. Definitely looking forward to that face rig tutorial. 👍🏻

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[@tomgraham2688]

This is genuinely an incredible resource.

[@babi8256]

Can't wait for that face rig tutorial! Love your videos, guys. Thanks for all the great content.

[@vadimlombard6775]

Simply amazing ! Love the designs and the renders. Truly inspiring !!!

[@sobreaver]

Awesome guide, complete and explained simply, straight to the point, just awesome !

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Ooh! I love it! Will definitely support by buying your shader! Thanks for the all the videos!

[@LightningBoyStudio]

Thanks so much! Really appreciate the support

[@riisezz0]

Can't wait to see how you handle face rigs. I had an idea about using booleans for the face just didn't know how to execute on it for my use case. Keep up the good work!

[@LightningBoyStudio]

Thanks! The next tutorial is coming soon, can't wait to show you all!

[@lth-rg3262]

A video tutorial on how you handle your Boolean face rigs would be AWESOME. Since I’ve been having a similar dilemma with my models as well. It would seriously help me out with my project.

[@kolupsy]

making a character of this quality in several days is still pretty fast.

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wicked fast!

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No kidding...

[@miqdadnaduthodi7193]

A reallly good blender tutorial on yt after a long time!

[@omnigeddon]

Excellent tutorials Clear And understandable.. I am a global learner so it is always hard for me to listen to others.. but this was epic winz thanks alot

[@vaillancourtjp]

Pour vrai guys! Vous me donnez le goût de me remettre à la 3D ;) Good jobs!

[@traumwelt1975]

Seing that freakin good result, i can't wait to see that video explaining your facial rig !! Awesome work as usual !!

[@brandonjacksoon]

Amazing! Thank you so much! Cool content! To be honest I really want to saw similar tutorials for another character! Thank you!

[@TimDownsAnimation]

Hang on. ... Has the boolean modifier really gotten that much better??? 0____o ? That mouth rig is AMAZING! I tried doing something like that a few years ago but because of the limitations of booleans (weird artifacts, needing precisely similar vertices between cutter object and the object being cut, etc) I decided a traditional mouth rig would be better. HOLY CRAP.

[@LightningBoyStudio]

Haha! We don't know if the boolean really got any better overtime, but there are definitely a couple of tips and tricks to know for the booleans to look good for this kind of rig. We're looking forward to posting the next tutorial and demonstrate all this!

[@morizanova8219]

Thanks for detail explanation. I'm not modeler (just writer who occasionally dive in fo premade shader and lighting) but this is should be good tips for my modeler team mate . Thanks again!

[@kolupsy]

To not have to copy the outline material you can set the material offset in the modifier to a crazy high number and add the outline material as your last material. It’s much simpler that way

[@LightningBoyStudio]

Oooh, good tip! I guess it only works if you use the same outline color for each material though, right?

[@kolupsy]

Yes. Thats the one downside to that but I like to stick with black Outlines most of the time anyway. But of course that might be a bit different for everyone Edit: uuuf the scene adjustment node is genius

[@CrazyVulcan]

I must know the secret to the face rig! Thank you for the tutorial

[@marcop-mb506]

Wow. So much information. So dense. So good. Thanks

[@willneot5082]

DUUUUDE that was the tutoorial i was just hoping to get, thank you so much!

[@caretakergamer]

Fantastic video and can't wait to for the face rig video!

[@cubedev4838]

I love you choose blender as your tools, i love blender very much :) Very helpful skills, later can u make playlist on how to make animation scene? Modelling, texturing, riging, rendering

[@LightningBoyStudio]

Thank you! If we ever have enough tutorial videos that cover our animation process, I guess we could make a playlist yes!

[@fabula3d590]

Nice!!!! I can't wait to tutorial vídeo of face Rig. And soon ill buy this shader! Tks 4 all

[@traumwelt1975]

You guys are amazing !! I can't wait for the facial rig though. your approach looks sooo cool.

[@AdrianLopez_vfxwolf]

Amazing tutorial! Well done on the Shader and the Tute! Looking forward to the facial rig tutorial. Gonna have to buy this shader set now ;)

[@AdamEarleArtist]

WOW that was a lot of work. Well done.

[@BlackoutGamingChannel]

I hope that face rig tutorial is high on the list of tutorials 😊😊😊

[@tobiasjb7283]

Superb stuff, dense with information and totally digestible. Would love to see your rigging process. Thanks for the great look into your work flow.

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[@BlackoutGamingChannel]

Great. Why did i have to watch this before starting work. For the next 10h all im going to want to do is buy this shader and play in blender.

[@miqdadnaduthodi7193]

Really looking forward for that facial rig tutorial

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Awesome work guys! I'm buying your shader now

[@manuelromero2339]

I would LOVE to see a tutorial on how you guys will be handling the cartoon look of moving wrinkles in clothes. With the lines and shading and shape changes of the cloth as it flows. Just a thought Love your guys' stuff.

[@sunnysunshine8897]

33:23 WOAH I wasn't even looking at the bottom left text watching this the first time and I thought those two images were the same thing!

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Wow...just wow!

[@noagolden]

okokOK I need help making that painterly style lighting. You can't just skip these things ! But also great video, and superb shader !

[@AchHadda]

I never get enough of your work :D you cool guys

[@NotAlexandeer]

Cant wait for the mouth rig video!!!!

[@chrisa9549]

I have a noob question, what would it look like getting this character over to unity or unreal with the shaded look you just made? Would you have to re-create the shader within unity or are there any import options? Also that face rig looks amazing, can’t wait till you make the video, another question is would something like that work in a game engine as well?

[@LightningBoyStudio]

Yes, you would probably have to remake a similar shader in your game engine of choice.

[@uodige1]

great tutorial,, it motivates me not to give up thank yoU!!!

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[@oh_kicul]

Thank you so much, love this channel and your shader. So cool.

[@dimitrishow_D]

Very cool cant wait to learn the face rig!! Ty so much

[@zonyzhao469]

All Great stuff! A question though: These eyes are scaled sphere instead of plane, how do u snap it (shrinkwrap) to a curved eye socket?

[@ariuka630]

ty so much. keep moving forward

[@jono0202]

You guys are awesome, thnx for sharing all that knowledge for free. I made interesting things with your toon shader. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@georgetherat3345]

Boolean for a mouth. Mind explodes! Thanks guys.

[@zhe_shean]

Thank you for the wonderful guide !

[@Whimmery]

-tents fingers waiting for the tutorial for the face rigging next- OwO

[@nierautomata9654]

Wow thank you so much 🙏 you even thought us how to make the model not just the shading part.

[@alvaroluffy1]

it would be awesome if we could see the process of modeling the character thats cut right before 4:04, i personally have learnt how to sculpt characters but modeling a low poly character just like that i dont see it anywhere

[@nabla9790]

Thank you for this tutorial! Just what I needed

[@arthurcassimiro4604]

Amazing video dudes, just amazing. In the name of God make this facial rig video, thanks love ya

[@noirlavender6409]

I'd love to see how you modeled those arms, please? I think having more extensive modeling tutorials would be great for your channel

[@UV-ANIMATION]

Impressive workflow.

[@StoneGear]

Love you all.

[@greyelgarrett1297]

This tutorial just answered more questions than i even knew to ask. Off to Gumroad i suppose. Thank you.

[@fauziimanuddin]

Can't wait the face rig!!

[@justahuman4862]

Even though I don't like blender. I really enjoyed the video.

[@RomboutVersluijs]

Isn't it much and much harder to animate those boolean mouth and rye pieces or can make the be part of the same armature? Such kind of face rig feels way different, very curious how you setup such a rig

[@KlassAnimated]

Any tips for using this shader to make an Environment? Or environment assets? Like how you have yellow grass with a green patch somewhere.

[@LightningBoyStudio]

Sure! For the grass we used a simple Color node with a black and white mask driving the second green color. The Uvs were projected from the top of the scene. Then we painted the mask in Blender from the camera shot itself to better control where we wanted the green patches to appear.

[@Clases3d]

how many useful tips, thanks a lot

[@SadEngineerArts1]

this is a gem