An Iray toon render

spearcarrier

Just... cuz. Created using iray.

The only post work is me adding a bit of line. Not a lot. Just a bit.

MarcCCTx

So, is this an iray setting or shaders?

spearcarrier

No, no shaders. Just me seeing if it could be done. One thing I noticed is that iray rendered a *lot* faster. Almost faster then 3Delight, which for me is saying something as I have a old computer that has never completed an iray render *ever* before.

spearcarrier

Attaching the settings for her skin. I'll also make a shader and put it on ShareCG. My username there is spearcarrier.

The trick, I found, was in backscatter. One time I had it almost cel shaded, but lost those settings in my play.

Backscatter likes to backscatter the environment, which means the top half of her would go dark. To get around that I had to put her in a lit sphere.

masterjinn

I Like the renders though.
I can't wait to play with them

spearcarrier

Yeah I'll probably play wit it more in the future.

SickleYield

Very nice effect, it really looks drawn!

ShawnBooth

Nicely done! Thank you for sharing this.

Really like the results.

Oso3D

Yeah, I had noticed that backscatter had an annoying tendency to just be lit and ignore shadows. Heh. Perfect for this!

MilosGulan

Wow thanks, I just found it on ShareCG. Will have to try it :)

3dOutlaw

Neat, I just saw this on ShareCG, need to give it a go!  Thanks!

StratDragon

wrong thread!

mikek

spearcarrier said:

 

Backscatter likes to backscatter the environment, which means the top half of her would go dark. To get around that I had to put her in a lit sphere.

Sorry for unearthing this thread but I don't understand the lit sphere part here. Is this refering to creating a sphere primitive with everything (character, camera) inside and changing the sphere material to emissive? Because when doing so it takes 10 minutes for 10 iterations on my PC. You mentioned how it renders for you quite fast so I must have something misunderstood or my setup is wrong.

spearcarrier

If I remember right, then yes it was a lit sphere that everything was inside becaues iray will do shadows no matter what, and I did'nt want them. I'm sure playing with that concept would also create some interesting effects. Maybe just creating a single light source and amping it up so you only get a little shador or something.

As for puter speed - wow. I was under the impression that the more light iray has to work with the faster it will go. I don't know why it slows your puter down. I confess I throw as many resources as I can at my puters, so I can't use it for a comparison.

mikek

If I remember right, then yes it was a lit sphere that everything was inside becaues iray will do shadows no matter what, and I did'nt want them. I'm sure playing with that concept would also create some interesting effects. Maybe just creating a single light source and amping it up so you only get a little shador or something.
 

Ok thank you that makes a lot sense now. Getting rid of the complex shadows and add only simple ones is exactly what I hope to get for a non 3D toon look.

spearcarrier said:

As for puter speed - wow. I was under the impression that the more light iray has to work with the faster it will go. I don't know why it slows your puter down. I confess I throw as many resources as I can at my puters, so I can't use it for a comparison.

My default scene with the same character but environment lit and one point light produces around 280 iterations in 10 minutes so its about 28 times faster. I tried to limit the sphere segments and sides as they usually recommend simpler shapes when using emissive primitives but maybe more will work better here or using a one sided material. I will have to experiment some more.

vrba79

Well dang! That's a fantastic find!