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beatnik
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Please advise where I can start learning how to create an animation with a cel shaded look in Houdini using the Mantra renderer if this is possible. Thank you in advance!
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Hava look at the vex_cartoon SHOP.
You can also merge a wireframe SOP that has a constant shaded lighting model in VOPs with a semi-constant shader (see attached) to get shadows.
I'm not sure how you'd render intersections as lines though.

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Hi!!

Have a look at the Wren ROP also. :wink:
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yeah composite a wren pass over a colour pass with some compositing you will get a good result.

you will be at the mercy of the wren pass.. not sure how it animates…
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Nice easy technique, but I have trees and concrete balls (!) in my scene, is there a shader than can handle this? Thanks.
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