3D Toon-Style Environment Art with Arnold
Arnold Basics 2
A course by Calder Moore , 3D Artist
About the video: Arnold Basics 2
Overview
“Now I will show you how to set up and use Arnold to get the scene ready for using the toon shaders and go over the basics of rendering with Arnold toon. ”
In this video lesson Calder Moore addresses the topic: Arnold Basics 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: 3D Toon-Style Environment Art with Arnold. Learn to design, model, and render highly detailed sci-fi environments with a stylized look using Arnold, Photoshop, and Cinema 4D.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Arnold Basics The next area is our edge detection. Let's start to go over the Shader itself. The first two parameters here are Edge and Silhouette. Those are the main toon shader, toon line attribute parameters there. So, Edge. You can think of it as interior lines of all our objects and Silhouette being the outline of all our objects. That will become a little bit more apparent down the line once we start adding textures and stuff. If Silhouette is turned off, then the Edge parameters will have influence over everything, so I'll just close the Silhouette tab for a second there. Let's sta...”
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Course summary for: 3D Toon-Style Environment Art with Arnold
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Calder Moore
A course by Calder Moore
Calder Moore is a 3D artist from British Columbia, Canada. Growing up, he loved the immersive worlds he saw in sci-fi and fantasy films. This inspired him to pursue 3D art, as he found it was the perfect tool for building his own. After graduating from CATO, he worked in the animation and gaming industries before making the leap to a full-time freelance career.
Since starting his professional journey, Calder has participated in a wide range of projects, from TV shows and video games to album covers and board game art. Thanks to this extensive experience, he’s developed an adaptable style and workflow that have led to collaborations with clients like Google, Wizards of the Coast, Atheris Entertainment, and The Royal Canadian Mint.
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