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NPR and procedural sketching in ICE

andy — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:14:16 +0000

(This article is a follow up to a thread on the XSI mailing list, showing some experiments I did a ways back with NPR using softimage ICE…)

XSI toon shader

andy — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:55:25 +0000

Did some more work on a basic realtime toon shader for XSI (and maya, it’s CGFX.) Here’s a sample…

It's Agent Smith(s), toon style.

Functionality is pretty basic at the moment: Ink threshold, 2 levels of paint and a hard spec hilight, overall color control, a single point light source. I still need to introduce diffusion and spec mapping, possibly some reflections and bump/normal. Remember, if you see an agent, run.

Playing with NPR

andy — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:48:04 +0000

I’ve been playing around with a little app on my iPhone which creates NPR sketch effects from photos (I gather made by Bruce Gooch, who has done a lot to advance the state of the art in ‘painterly’ and ‘sketchy’ image manipulation.) ToonFX

Two of my Great Pyrenees dogs, Frankie and Hutch.

The app is simple but with a little effort and insight you can get some good results.