Basic Blender Toon / Cel Shader Tutorial 2D Grease Pencil + 3D Modelling

[@TipTut]

Anyone who's having trouble with the 'solidify' step, and their mushroom is just expanding into a hot mess. Tab into edit mode, press A to select everything, and choose Mesh>Normals>Flip.

[@giampieropaglione2447]

Did you apply the scale to the object before doing the solidify step?

[@joschisaurus182]

For some reason, even after applying the scale and doing this, my mushroom still expands when I change the thickness setting of the solidify modifier. In the transform tab under scale it says that it's set to 1.000 on every axis, but even when I lock them, the mushroom expands when I change the thickness. My current Blender version is 3.1.2, and I followed each of your steps 1:1.

[@akshanshaverma135]

Hey , I'm having trouble with this step for my mushroom stem even after doing mesh>normals>flip. its worked fine with the mushroom cap but not with the stem, it just becomes a huge blob of purple . how do i fix this?

[@tabbycrumch3062]

@@joschisaurus182 I'm having the exact same problem too.

[@peppinfante1660]

@@tabbycrumch3062 try doing recalculate outside (instead of flip) when selecting vertices and going to mesh->normals. It solved my problem

[@VoodooBrew]

Noted watching blender tutorials is incredibly satisfying, like watching those "building a house out of mud" series

[@GDVONTOP]

instructions unclear, got put in federal prison for possession of pscilocin

[@MetrikOner]

Dude I have been looking at NPR shaders for like months, and never have I seen someone just toss a bsdf into a shader to rbg.... thats so insanely usefull. Dont get me wrong, building a complex shader has its advantages for characters and major elements, but I can imagine using this for small objects or background items for speed. Thanks for this!

[@TipTut]

Any time!

[@private8718]

Hey man, loving this tutorial so far. Is there any chance you might be able to turn on the function in Blender that shows what keys you're pressing? It would be super helpful for someone like me who is still trying to learn all the shortcuts.

[@TipTut]

I didn't know you could do that - I'll make sure to do so for future tutorials.

[@-Blender]

I have an addon I use for my tutorials that I can send to you. I can also send details for how you can alter it to your liking. Just let me know 😊

[@ceci1017]

@@TipTut thank u sm!!

[@mrmr3293]

Donut

[@thehomedepothouseplant9986]

@Gokul Kannan dumb comment

[@rhrhhiorwwero]

first blender tutorial I've been able to follow fully for 3d - probably helps that I know grease pencil but amazing stuff and really helpful, so thanks

[@Sin_Alder]

I appreciate that this is not only great looking, but deceptively easy to execute. There are so many things with Blender that feel absurdly complex and unintuitive that having something quick and easy that looks nice is always a welcome addition to my notes. Half the time I feel like I'm spending more time writing notes than actually using Blender.

[@MilkyClayGALAXY]

Wow, I didn’t imagine that it’s so simple

[@TipTut]

I know right!

[@nathanbgerman]

As a blender beginner, I learned so much from this tutorial.

[@TipTut]

Great to hear!

[@misspurchawka6666]

I want my game in this style, it's a miracle that it popped up on my reccomended

[@shemdesuuu]

awesome tutorial!!! been looking for that cell shaded look for a while now and turns out it was color ramp all along hahaha thank u so much tip tut!!! the backface thingy that makes it look like the mushroom has an outline is such a great idea, will rewatch later again and apply what i learned to my school projects 💜

[@Makrochain]

I normally do not comment, but this tutorial changed my mind and i will start using blender now too to get my creativity out of my head! Thanks!

[@TipTut]

Great to hear!

[@ceci1017]

Please do continue with more of these! Amazing tutorial cant wait to try soon!

[@ejo]

The combination of cel shading and grease pencil is a game changer. Thanks man. Wonderfully explained.

[@smiley_worth]

NPR (none photo realistic) is what I hope to learn in 3D. There is really few that I have found on that subject here on YT

[@lostcrusader8053]

Go check Lightning Boy Studio on KZbin. He has good tutorials on how to do NPR shading

[@smiley_worth]

@@lostcrusader8053 oh thank you

[@ceci1017]

@@lostcrusader8053 thank u sm! Ive been wanting to learn npr style modelling for so long also😌

[@lostcrusader8053]

@@ceci1017 No problem. You can also check out Kristof Dedene. He has cool techniques to NPR shading on Blender. Happy Blending :)

[@pactanimated2580]

Is there any chance you would consider a tutorial on making Characters with this style? (Toon/ cell shader) It would be awesome to model/sculpt them up and rig them to work with the toon shader world. It would really compliment the environment style.

[@mikecicciari845]

Yeah i just applied this to my model, and while it looks amazing its a nightmare for rigging lol. Any tips on this? @tiptut

[@oversalt4713]

@@mikecicciari845 Not sure if this will help you, but its saved me a lot of time: rig first, texture last. Other YTs you can also check out are Dikko for intermediate / advanced NPR & toon shading and Lightning Boy Studio for advanced toon shading. Each method is useful for different things, and most use the inverted hull (solidify mod) method for outlines, just keep in mind this doubles the polycount of your geometry.

[@obijohn1]

Thank you so much for this tutorial, as a learner it was very easy to follow and i had so much fun and am very proud of my end result. i have subbed and shared with my friends. best tutorial ever.

[@TipTut]

You're very welcome!

[@evergonzalez553]

Yo que?

[@grone797]

14:53 that's a cool wallpaper

[@isaacrobeson8359]

Great tutorial! Just finished, looks awesome!

[@Khy._]

I DID IT! I followed this tut (first ever time following a Blender tutorial) and minus a couple trial and error issues, it came out looking amazing! And not only that, but with this being my first Blender project, I now feel comfortable with a lot of the keyboard shortcuts. Can't recommend this tut enough.

[@smiley_worth]

I LOVE YOU FOR DOING THIS!!!! I'm originally a 2D artist but now I hope to merge it with 3D. With this now I can learn better with both 2D and 3D at the same time!

[@TipTut]

Once I’m feeling better (bit ill at the moment) I’m planning a whole blender for 2D artists/animators series! So stay tuned!

[@3polygons]

@@TipTut I'm hyped for that! :)

[@Starrytchi]

@@TipTut - yes

[@Raven1015]

Followed this yesterday. Mushrooms didn't come out looking as good as yours but I was able to put the same techniques to other plants and I have half of a scene set up! Thanks for posting this!

[@christopherwong1782]

This was SO GOOD! Thanks for making this!

[@TipTut]

Happy to help!

[@byAndreasEkberg]

The last 15 seconds about the Z pass made my day! :D

[@byAndreasEkberg]

I was stuck on that, not knowing how to hide the "behind lines"...

[@TipTut]

Glad you liked the video!

[@00jero00]

you Deserve more Subscribers

[@kizzysnow4392]

Thank you so much! This was absolutely amazing!

[@2010lakshitha]

Thank you for the explanation first time trying the grease pencil

[@TipTut]

Good luck!

[@KakosSet]

This tutorial works so well, thanks for it

[@Usama.Farmer]

I Love your way man ❤

[@RedninjaMultimediaProductions]

An amazing tutorial!!! Learned something new today!! Thankyou!!

[@markklimtcasado6434]

Very nice tuto man, easy to understand!!

[@christiecrispie8351]

You gave the stem a bum crack... When I make my mushroom I am making it dummy thicc Thank you for all your wisdom

[@TipTut]

Thicc shroom

[@exiledemotionart4966]

learned so much from this tutorial, awesome job thank you!

[@TipTut]

Happy to help!

[@mooncrashuniverse]

Thank you! That's brilliant!

[@tokimatsu]

I wish there was a way to make texture maps using such an easy technique... But sadly we need to deal with uv's unwrapping, texture painting... and a totally different workflow. So this video is very helpful for fast renders!

[@peterdesigns]

Actually if you've downloaded the most recent version of Blender (3.0) you can paint on objects and it'll automatically apply to the UV map. Substance painter has a similar feature as well.

[@3polygons]

I'm personally interested in cel shading (freestyle render, just pure texturing, some touches with Grease Pencil, etc) in Blender. Doing artwork as a solo (lone wolf) creator for indie stuff, it does not make sense anymore (specially characters) with a realistic approach. Not these days of PBR materials and normal maps/sculpts. I can do it, have the technical knowledge (more or less), but the time needed is not worth it from the point of view of $$$/time ratio, the way the indy market is. So, imo it's all about illustration, cel shading animation & objects, and maybe pixel art projects, comic stuff, any of that all the way, those kind of projects, what I can really go for. Sure is different for other indies, though.

[@Rain87166]

Please do more Blender tutorials 🙏

[@TipTut]

More on the way!

[@lejnarluke]

Hi Tip, is there any particular reason you are not using / (slash on numpad) for isolating objects that you want to work on specifically? I've seen you manually hiding things you don't want to see in the collection list and I think it could be rather tedious if you have a lot of objects in the scene. Thank you for your response :)

[@TipTut]

I didn't know that shortcut, thanks!

[@SakuraWitch]

@@TipTut the numpad also has the perspective/orthographic camera views

[@diestobot]

Thank you so much for this tutorial!

[@_TetKaneda]

Great contribution. Great Walkthrough. You have my like Thank you so much. Greetings

[@kingpow3015]

Please do more tutorials like this! It's so complete! I feel like I really started to learn how to do it! And I love that you picked a natural element like mushrooms! Please do more tutorials with plants, trees, etc! The toon shader and grease pencil are amazing! I looooove it!!

[@TipTut]

We got a whole series on creating a full scene like this coming up next, so stay tuned!

[@joziermaster3269]

WOW THIS IS AMAZING....thanks 100

[@gaston.]

well done tutorial!! thanks for sharing

[@maxfrankel9060]

Thanks bro you are legend

[@shafira3615]

This is help me so much 🤩 thank u

[@reden_sydler]

20:15 To prevent that you can also set a low thickness to the solidify modifier (ex: 0,001) then apply it. It will create a layer of vertices around your object, you can pull each one manually to have different outline thicknesses.

[@binyaminbass]

Great! Please more Blender, NPR, cell shaing, grease pencil, this style, but expand to animation if possible. Like rigging a character and animating facial expressions. Maybe keyframing GP on the cell shaded mesh?

[@NeruIsDead]

I can't find the shader to rgb anymore. What do I do? (edit) You have to be in Eevee, not Cycles.

[@Premeyt]

16:10 Thats not a bad Thanos model

[@basiccomponents]

Amazing tutorial, thanks alot!

[@خلق-الله-بالحق]

Such good tutorial! Thank you

[@TipTut]

You're very welcome!

[@fabiothw]

Super cool tips! 👏👏👏

[@TipTut]

Glad you like them!

[@МихаилХлебушкин]

Were find the node "Shader to RGB"? I entered it in the search but it's not there.

[@GL1TCH43V3R]

Make sure you have "Eevee" set for your render engine. If you have it set to "Cycles", I've found that the node simply is not there.

[@krimsonpainstudios]

Awesome!

[@josetorres-rg2ej]

In the new versions of blender where is shader to RGB

[@aronhelios1734]

f3 allows u to search

[@ProdByS2]

it needs eevee

[@ralphcalzada4767]

great tuturoial

[@Glade-qv8jx]

Thank you so much this is so helpful :D

[@TipTut]

Glad it was helpful!

[@cvanims]

This was super cool to watch, but I am not at this level yet. 🤣

[@jonb4074]

For some reason the at the border step, it would not work. As soon as I added the 2nd material and the solidify modifier, set the material offset, it became the boarder emission color even before flipping the normals. I checked and normals are the correct orientation initially and flipping as they should, but after enabling backface culling, nothing changed. I tried every possible combination of settings I i could think of, but the only way I got it to work was to apply the emission material to the object and then I swapped the order of the materials on the object. Now, I was using the same material on the cap and stem. I don't see why that would make a difference, but I did notice that on the cap, the thickness setting on the modifier had to go negative, and it ended up being positive on the stem. I totally get why this method works and it really seemed odd the way mine was behaving. I'm using 3.3. 0. Just posting here in case anyone else has this issue. It's quite possible I missed a step earlier on but I went over the border section a number of times and made sure I only did what was mentioned in the video. Regardless, thanks for this highly informative tutorial!

[@artemtsenev]

Cool, thanks for video

[@Pendragondnd]

Great Video!

[@rob679]

'Inverted hull' cell shading is the easiest way, but keep in mind that it can basically double your poly count. Nowadays rigs should handle it fine, just be carefull using it with some extreme complex scenes with a lot of polys. For static scenes you can use Freestyle or brand new Outline Grease Pencil modifier, those can be used in animations too but they add render time or need baking first.

[@TipTut]

Thanks I'll look into it! Always learning new stuff with blender :)

[@jackobmemiarz]

Thank you sooooo much!

[@daslama731]

This is such a good tutorial! It doesn't explain to much nor to little. Thanks for taking the time to make this

[@artup.yourlife466]

learned a lot from this thank you, can u tell how does the solidify modifier knows that u need 2nd material as borders

[@JayRKID]

Also Ive only just found your channel and i would absolutely love more Blender tutorials, maybe animating faces on the model etc.

[@RTW590]

Really awesome video! Thank you so much!!

[@TipTut]

Glad you liked it!

[@OwnLee-xg8dz]

Thank you very much for sharing this awesome tutorial. I really love the texture you made here. Is it possible to import this to Unity without any changes?

[@lucarenders]

great!

[@Failtrial]

Спасибо! Ты лучший!

[@wobbletea6311]

I cant believe I stumbled onto this tutorial. I've always wanted to do a Toon style blender scene and didn't know where to start, thankfully this tutorial has set me on a good path.

[@TipTut]

Happy to help!

[@Ka-BO0M]

honestly 10/10 tutorial, i just cant figure out how i made a bolders instead of a mushroom

[@peskybird2191]

Ummm... My scene just stopped reacting to my lights. Any advice on how to fix? Also great tutorial!

[@litemystic]

now can you please make a video showing how to import this model to blender, ( this exact model)

[@lucianramos7582]

I loved the video. congratulations. I was doing some art here with grease pencil. but when I render it shows the lines that are behind the mesh.

[@rexrecap2959]

Love the video it has helped me a lot with the look i am going for! one question how do you apply the scale I think that is a problem I am having with putting the border on smaller models that i have made. Looks like

[@SFAutor]

Thank you for the great video. I have not yet tried Grease Pencil but have to add Text (Description) to surfaces and wonder, if Grease Pencil wouldn't be a convenient way to add text to surfaces of 3D models. Is it?

[@windbarioth]

If anyone is having trouble with Inset doing nothing after you alt click the edge of a circle, instead go into Face select mode and select the circles face, this often allowed me to Inset as normal. If anyone knows of any problems this might cause down the line please let me know

[@sourajeet127]

great

[@icanhaskpop1239]

Very cool trick, thanks, but I really wish Blender simply had an actual toon/cel shader so we wouldn't have to fake it with overly cumbersome methods like this.

[@TipTut]

The entirety of blender is node based, for complete flexibility. If you want something premade you can buy toon shader packs that do the work for you, but they're just an interface that build the same kind of stuff as this.

[@gabrielrosadasilvarosa2840]

vou fazer....

[@account-vj2tx]

Can you make a video on how to export all the texture made in the tutorial? I missed that. Mainly exporting Shader with Shader to RGB which doesn't work with Baker. I couldn't export my texture with fbx.

[@richochet]

This is great, as is your teaching clarity. Ps please could you consider having the key shortcuts displayed on screen?

[@Staicmeister]

hey im having trouble with my border lining showing up it just is not protruding the lining like yours is and im trying everything i can think of

[@davidbartonjr]

Uhhh. Great video but somewhere I went wayyyyy wrong. Lucky for you guys I have no idea how to post my image here. You're welcome. Back to the donut.

[@pouleart8197]

when i turn off shadows for my spot light, it affects my mushroom stem as well as the top of the mushroom, basically shading it as if the mushroom cap wasn't there. this creates a weird look since the part of the stem nearest to the cap is light when it souldn't be recieving it due to the cap blocking it. I don't see your stem be affected this way and can't figure out what i did differently. I know this is an old tutorial but any help is appreciated!

[@ActuallyNickV]

Figuring out grease pencil will be the end of me lmao, the thing has what feels like 12 preparation steps before you even start drawing a single line

[@peterdesigns]

While I'm drawing with my grease pencil and the px strength is large instead of drawing a flat circle on my mesh it creates a 3d sphere from that stroke size, is this a glitch or do i just have to change some settings?

[@SpiderHumana]

19:37 When I choose Solidify, Materials and those other options doesn't appear, I´m using Blender 2.83.20

[@TheBoris178]

Are you using a plug in to use the photo reference?

[@mtliedke]

i dont have "shader to rgb" node. What blender version you are using?

[@biggierocc1935]

Watching you put the Solidify into negative thickness instead of setting the offset from negative to positive hit something in my soul

[@mrCetus]

Thank you so much for this tutorial, as a learner it was very easy to follow and i had so much fun and am very proud of my end result. i have subbed and shared with my friends. best tutorial ever.

[@jakegatesmusic]

I couldn't do the border. It becomes a mess.

[@TipTut]

Check the pinned comment :)

[@draft_fusion]

Failed to find shader to rgb. How do I fix this?

[@theslicefactor4590]

You have to be in Eevee

[@xecense]

I would love to make this style in games, man I am excited. Thanks for the tutorial

[@greedy_mf]

then youll enjoy risk of rain 2

[@FroggyInTheBoggy]

why does the stem lowkey look like a pink squash without the cap(not being mean or anything love the tutorial 10/10 I just find it funny)

[@gomolemomolefhi8929]

what about a texture map for a game character?

[@xaxuelx7987]

I'm using 3.5 and some of the hot keys have changed like the camera lock...(unless I have missed something...or accidentally clicked a box I should not have im having trouble moving the camera while in camera view.)

[@Giantsource5547]

can we export it to unity guys ?? i have toon shader project to export into unity, and i don't know if it possible ? can you help me please !!