Blender 5.3 Finally Has Proper Toon Shading — Transcript

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1. 0:00This little pufferfish lives in Fishpot,
2. 0:03the animated series I'm making, and
3. 0:05every fish in that world is lit with the
4. 0:07new toon shading in Blender 5.3. In this
5. 0:11video, I'll show you why the old toon
6. 0:13trick breaks as soon as you add more
7. 0:15lamps, and then I'll paint him
8. 0:17step-by-step with the new nodes until
9. 0:20every lamp in the scene draws its own
10. 0:22clean band of light. I'm Armin from
11. 0:25Armin 5D. Until now, toon shading in
12. 0:28Blender was really a clever trick. You
13. 0:30plug the diffuse shader into shader to
14. 0:33RGB, and a color ramp set to constant
15. 0:35cut the light into hard steps. The catch
16. 0:38is that shader to RGB only sees the
17. 0:41total of all your lights mixed together,
18. 0:44so a single ramp decides the bands for
19. 0:46every lamp at once. Watch what happens
20. 0:48when I add a blue lamp from above and a
21. 0:51pink one from behind. The colors
22. 0:53disappear, and the edge of the warm
23. 0:55light even jumps because the ramp only
24. 0:57sees a brighter sum. Blender 6.3 adds a
25. 1:01node called light accumulation, and
26. 1:03whatever you plug into it runs once for
27. 1:05every lamp in the scene before the
28. 1:08results are added up. So I start with
29. 1:10one warm lamp. Light evaluation tells me
30. 1:13which way that lamp is. [music]
31. 1:15A dot product with the normal gives me
32. 1:17the angle, and a hard step turns it into
33. 1:19two clean tones. Now the blue lamp from
34. 1:22above, like daylight coming through the
35. 1:24water, and the pink one from behind.
36. 1:27Light info gives me each lamp's own
37. 1:29color and power, so every lamp paints
38. 1:32its own band, and the warm light's edge
39. 1:34stays exactly where it was. And because
40. 1:37the pink lamp has a custom property,
41. 1:39which the attribute node can now read in
42. 1:41light mode, only that lamp draws a thin
43. 1:44line along the edge. Next, shadows. The
44. 1:47loop doesn't add any shadows by itself,
45. 1:50so I multiply by a new node called
46. 1:52shadow ray cast, and with its softness
47. 1:54at zero, they stay crisp no matter how
48. 1:57big the lamp is. Then the shine. Light
49. 2:00evaluation has a glossy mode and a hard
50. 2:03step on it gives every lamp its own
51. 2:05clean cartoon highlight that slides over
52. 2:08him as he turns. And one optional extra
53. 2:10for an underwater world like mine.
54. 2:13Vector transform now has a light space
55. 2:15so I can look at any point from the
56. 2:17lamp's own point of view. If I put a
57. 2:19caustic pattern into the blue lamp
58. 2:21space, that lamp throws moving water
59. 2:24light onto everything it touches and the
60. 2:26old trick had [music] no way to do that
61. 2:28because it never knew which lamp the
62. 2:30light came from. So here's the same fish
63. 2:32under the same three lamps before and
64. 2:35after. It all runs in Eevee and it means
65. 2:38toon shading isn't a trick anymore. It's
66. 2:41real lighting that you shape one lamp at
67. 2:43a time. And if you want to play with
68. 2:45this little guy yourself, I've put his
69. 2:47file on my Patreon so you can download
70. 2:49him and use him in your own projects.
71. 2:52Every shot in Fish Bot is lit this way.
72. 2:54So if you want to see this little guy
73. 2:56and his town come to life, subscribe and
74. 2:58I'll see you in the next one.