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I’m afraid it’s just a good old-fashioned hand-drawn 2D animation on alpha (not drawn by me), then those are on image planes parented to the ship.

You can change the surface on the object’s materials to a “Transparent” or “Translucent” shader. Those should both work in Eevee - but you might want to use translucent for cycles, if I’m remembering correctly. You could also use the “Holdout” shader if you want alpha where the object was.

Nah, I’m probably the one who’s missing something. I do use that emission node to tweak the opacity of the image texture between 0 and 1, or to crank the contrast up between 1 and 2 - just a little bit more control, but there’s probably a better way of doing that? I also may have cobbled these together with some superfluous nodes in the first place.

So this method uses the solidify modifier just a TINY bit - the usual purpose of it is to make the model bigger. Maybe mess around with the offset and see if that changes anything. Some geometry just doesn’t like inverted hull - but I would get the Outline Helper Add-on at felineentity.gumroad.com (it’s free). It automates all the setup apart from the line thickness - so if it isn’t working with the add-on, you might want to try freestyle or grease pencil for your line instead

@@cockpitsandboobytraps I wasn't expecting a reply so soon! thank you so much for this, I'll try it later!

You want a Mix node set to “multiply” - plug in the regular texture to A, and this toon shader to B. Factor somewhere between 0.9 and 1. See how that works!

@@cockpitsandboobytraps Thanks so much, I'll try it!

Wow! Thank you!

That’s a modifier for grease pencil, so make sure you’ve got your line art/ grease pencil object selected (not the object you’re trying to outline), and it should be there.

@@cockpitsandboobytraps Ahh, thank you. Keep up this great work. Brilliant!

@@chumcool no problem, and thanks!

I’m seeing it on 4.0.1 - it’s Eevee only, on the Material Properties tab, under “Settings”

Hey, I’m not sure exactly which clip you mean?

@@cockpitsandboobytraps ...at Minute 1:26, sir.

@@naenjamal4827 Ah, ok. I don’t have a video on it, but I’ll try to put the step-by-step here: With the camera selected, create your camera move by making two “location and rotation” keyframes with the “i” key - one at the beginning and one at the end of your timeline. Select both keyframes in the timeline and SHIFT-E > Linear Extrapolation. With the camera still selected, go to the beginning of your timeline. Click on the green Camera Properties tab on the right, and increase the Clip Start value until you can’t see your object at all. Hover your mouse over that value and press “i” to create a keyframe. Go to the end of your timeline, and decrease the Clip Start value until you can see your whole object. Hover over it and press “i” to create another keyframe. Select both of those keyframes and do another SHIFT-E > Linear Extrapolation. At this point, with the Clip Start keyframes still selected, you might want to scale and move them around, so that you get the timing you want. Check “freestyle” in the Render Properties tab, and you’re all set. That’s how I do it - I hope that’s helpful. Let me know if that worked for you.

Hahha why not? go for it

@@cockpitsandboobytraps woo hoo, thank you very much sir

very true, and it’s way more capable of crashing Blender than even Freestyle.

Oh, thanks so much! I think at this point it’s way too late for me to get into Eve, but it seems so epic and mysterious from the outside.

the line art modifier can be a bit fiddly with animation, but definitely mess with your camera clipping settings and see if that helps - Clip Start can cause problems if it’s too low or too high

Thank you for the reply,@@cockpitsandboobytraps . For anyone wondering, I was using a lineart modifier on a grease pencil stroke. When I changed it to a grease pencil blank (I think thats what it is called) things started to come together a bit better for some reason. Even with all of the exact lineart modifier settings I had on the grease pencil stroke it was working. Also I have found that when an object is really long and exceeds the camera bounds it will take away the lines on the object until it is smaller or you add a subdivision mod on that object.

Practice make perfect bro 😀

Thanks, Josh! Yeah, this wasn’t exactly supposed to be a music video - it’s 7 separate animations - but I think it works out!

Thanks! The track is by Highlights of our Modern World - but I did the animation. It’s all 3D, all done in Blender

@@cockpitsandboobytraps thanks you for the answer ! could be cool to make something together maybe😇

@@MokkaMusicyeah! Always need music, send me a track and I’ll see if I can make something with it.

@@cockpitsandboobytraps Absolutely! I'll send over 1-2 of my best tracks for you to check out.

Unfortunately, it’s just a stock art image from google and not mine to share. (Should be very easy to find, though)

you CAN mix in an image with the toon shader, like I did with the tiger stripe pattern in the video, but you don’t need to use an image texture - and I normally don’t. If you do, you’ll also probably need to adjust the UV maps on it. But I usually just use the basic setup I show in the video: Diffuse BSDF > Shader to RGB > Color Ramp. In order to see the effect, you need some lights, too! But other than that, I think everything is covered in the video. Let me know if that answered your question!

@@cockpitsandboobytraps Thank you for responding so fast. It is deeply appreciated I am going to try that out. I think my problem was with the lights they don't seem to work. (I will let you know if it works out) thank you once again

@@behind_you780no problem! Yeah, this sort of shader is completely controlled by lights and the stops on the color ramp. The light strength you need will be different based on where it is in your scene, what kind of lamp you’re using, and the scale of your objects - but you should be able to pretty easily see the effect by just adding a sun lamp and adjusting the strength. The sun lamp has infinite falloff, though, which isn’t necessarily something you want if you’re trying to get the look of shading on actual 2D cartoons. So I end up using a bunch of point lights and area lights to fill in what I need, and sometimes those need ridiculous amounts of power.

@@cockpitsandboobytraps so as I suspected the light doesn't seem to be working while everything else works. For reference, I just imported a basic model that I made (no texture, just some random model) and the light just doesn't seem to interact at all? I'm not sure what to do. Any ideas?

@@behind_you780 you’re definitely using Eevee? You could have too much light. Basically with too much light, the shader will “blow out” to whatever color you have all the way to right of your color ramp, and not enough light, and the whole thing will be whatever you have all the way to the left - if that makes sense. Make sure you don’t have a bright background or world, probably don’t want to use an HDRI. If you’re still having trouble with it, you’re welcome to send it to cockpitsandboobytraps @ Gmail and I’ll take a look at it.