Could this shader be applied to any asset? I was considering learning Blender to create anime characters, but now I’m tempted to reinstall Daz instead.
Yes. I wondered this myself and you can change clothes, hair, props etc, YMMV . I have not tried any complex scene or something, but this was a super quick attempt at just changing the materials of everything in this quick lil pinup scene with this FilaToon shader.
Hair, Dress, Shoes, Mic, Speakers etc all iray stuff that would never look cartoon-esque.. but FilaToon has a few variants to chose from. I have found that for hair, you need to hide the scalp materials using the opacity parameter. It also cannot be used with Strands-Based Hair because this shader needs geometry for it to work.