Arnold Toon Shader Series | Part 1 | Breaking down the Toon Shader

In part 1 of this tutorial series I'll be going over all the main channels used in the Arnold toon shader for Cinema 4D and how to use them to create unique shaders.
TIME STAMPS:
setting up the toon shader: 1:22
Base Channel: 3:58
Emission Channel: 9:54
Edge and Shilouette Channels: 11:30
Specular Channel: 22:55
Stylized Highlight Channel: 25:32
Rim Lighting Channel: 26:49
Sheen Channel: 28:12
Geometry Channel (bump mapping): 29:23

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[caldermoore]

TIME STAMPS:
setting up the toon shader: 1:22
Base Channel: 3:58
Emission Channel: 9:54
Edge and Shilouette Channels: 11:30
Specular Channel: 22:55
Stylized Highlight Channel: 25:32
Rim Lighting Channel: 26:49
Sheen Channel: 28:12
Geometry Channel (bump mapping): 29:23

[MajedHD_]

You are too generous to give a lot of information in one part..
Thank you very much


Please continue adding C4DtoA tutorials

[delizade]

Thank you so much for your efforts to share your workflow. It gave me a wonderful energy and this is priceless. thank you

[sajjadabouei]

I am very new to whole this toon shading and this video blow my mind, the possibilities seems endless.
thank you for sharing your knowledge man

[McRibs]

You're a legend. Thanks for these, dude. Now to invest in Arnold 😭

[williamaraujo]

thank you so much man, rlly, saw ur art here on youtube and it became my goal to be able to do something in this style and urs is the best tutorial out here :D mad props man, thank you again :)

[acidicbloom]

you're the man! please don't stop!

[noxwilson]

So mind-blowing art. I really like to watch your videos. 🔥🔥🔥

[millie]

Ace work Calder, been waiting a long time for you to reveal your techniques for this since you posted the results on Facebook!

[Darksagan]

This is exactly what I was looking for but for Octane render. lol

[E_Dtl]

Brilliant, subscribed and looking forward to the next chapter.

[tomkatdev]

Calder, thanks so much for this series!

[cruchingtiger]

Man this is way more complex than I thought! Thanks for sharing though!

[halafradrimx]

The JS Displacement link is here :



It's a free tool, very good for sci-fi stuff.

[michaelweinlein]

Thank you for uploading this.... learnd alot from it :-)

[ClownXmachina]

Superb. I really need to go through all this info, and experiment. What could you say about cinema's built in toon shader and it's options as a comparison ? Oh, and I'm subscribing just for these contributions you made to the 3d community at large :)

[blahhdblahhblahh]

I love this technique and the tutorial you have posted. Seems the Arnold shader is mega expensive and out of most individuals price range. Is there just the plugin for just the toon shader portion for us artists that aren’t rich? Hahaa.

[intpt]

Was hoping for an explanation about the edge detection, especially out the toon ID, CAN I find that somewhere?

[championsofodin]

Any idea how to do something like this is Unity?

[milesvanyperen]

Great tutorial! I was wondering how you achieved a fine line around your shadows (referencing your image at 0:25)?I'm using Maya and haven't been able to reproduce this effect. I was also wondering about using the TriPlanar projection for the Edge Detection Map as Cubic doesn't seem to be the right choice for Maya or am I not understanding something?