best cartoon engine ?

nillamello

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Oct 11, 2018
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What kind of toon are you looking at trying to do? Ultimately, most render engines are going to have at least a basic toon shader set. Arnold has of a 2.5D anime-type with cell shading, and some links from there take you to other tutorials for pencil-drawing, two-tone, pixel art, etc. And I mean... Pixar's Renderman rendering engine is a thing that can be used by anyone (assuming your chosen program has support), so if that's the look you want... at least you know it will do it. If you want Disney Frozen-type stuff, that was produced in Maya using Arnold, but again, just about any engine can create very similar results if you are good with the shader graphs.