Currently working on an update for this tutorial. Should be available in a couple weeks! Lots of changes, and should be way easier to understand. Stay tuned!
clearly you have a vast level of knowledge and skill... however for a noob like me it is useless if you don't cover how to even get freestyle applied to your render in the first place... every tutorial I try to find just assumes you know how to set up a 'render node' or something and I am lost...
Hey there, Anti-Trekker! From about 10:37 it shows a pretty good run down of how to set up render nodes, and yes - what is missing is the shortcut to add a node - Shift-A - which will bring up a menu of nodes you can add. I'll try to be clearer in future content for beginners. Blender is set up with a basic input and output for rendering by default. In the compositing window, you generally have to tick "use nodes" to see it. Hope this helps!
It takes time. I watched this tutorial a year ago and was just like you, lost. I watched it again today and because I have more knowledge of blender, I gained a huge amount. Paul O'Caggegi is the GOAT for Freestyle :-)
Hi Paul, I have done everything you did in the tutorial but for some reason, no lines no objects no shades are showing up in render preview or on rendered image and I have no idea why...Only thing I see is that something is blocking out the viewport grid but its invisible
Without seeing your file I can't really know what's going on, dude. Are you in Cycles? Have you enabled transparency in your Film settings? Have you ticked Freestyle in your View Layer filters so you can render Freestyle - as shown at 4:30? If all else fails, download the demo file and check it against your own settings.
When I use your settings and render it, there is basically nothing. No lines. The color layer is black, the alpha layer too, and the combined just shows the transparent pattern, no lines. I don't get this...
Isn't the Local OR both or one of it, and not either or? BTW: I highly recommend Eevee for Freestyle. It doesn't change the quality but it is much faster.
Yes! Thank you, I like blender's freestyle a lot! And there aren't many decent tutorials to use it with cycles, more for blender render, and with it now gone in 2.8 we are blessed to have this, where are all the views?! ;'P My ultimate goal is to have a setup able to produce hand drawn like images and this is a great start point. I'm looking forward to next month :)
You say that you highly recommend switching from Eevee to Cycles. If we're not using most of the features of a renderer, why not just stay with Eevee? I don't know too much but it seems like you're really just using the outlines of the objects. No? Can you explain please?
Easy: This was released two years ago when freestyle was not enabled as a render pass and didn't play nice with eevee. There is a link to an updated video. Click on that and you'll see a more up-to-date tutorial.
HEEEEELP I dont know If a touch something else, but when I render mi model nothing appears, and in the viewport shading I cant see my objects :cc I just see png texture all over the place. Help please :cccc
Are you rendering a png with alpha? RGBA in your output settings? When compositing, do you have alpha enabled? If compositing freestyle over anything else, have you enabled the "alpha of second input" in your node?
@@PCaggegi Well yes Iam rendering with alpha, I have the RGBA activated and in the compositing I have activated the alpha too. The thing is that the lineart is not showing in the final render, I have the freestyle activated and all of your setting in my project. I was trying it yesterday and it works, but now it is not working, I dont know If I touched something else, I´m new in blender haha.
Cheers, Kent. You could look at Homebased - the comic I currently produce - which utilises a few 3D assets. www.homebasedcomic.com/ My website (link provided in my About page I think?) has some more examples.
Hey Paul I am NEW to Blender, Basically a NEWBIE. Love what you are doing and sharing with us, I subscribed Instantly. Looking Forward to learning from you as grow as a Blender user and comic Artist. Will be joining your Patreon soon.
Hey thanks Dexter! I'm hoping you get alot out of my videos. Please feel free to message me if you have any issues with stuff or need clarification, either here or even on Patreon. I'll attempt to respond ASAP.
Hi there. I have a question: I'm currently working on a personal short animation project in Blender Cycles (2.79b) with freestyle. I've noticed that randomly in some frames certain freestyle strokes break (especially the contour line). What's the reason for this and how can it be avoided?
Thus reddit thread might offer some insights. I'm not entirely sure what your scene entails, and freestyle can be a pain to get right. I focus mainly on stills, so am not a great source for animation problems. Hope this helps www.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/87rkic/problems_in_blender_freestyle_there_are_artifacts/
Oooooohhhhh this is just perfect for my Blender self-teaching!! I had this video on my watch list for the longest time now, and your whole channel rocks! I'm going to subscribe now and follow you closely because this is exactly what I'm looking for my animations in the future! Awesome work and thanks a lot for sharing these! =D
Hi Paul, I would like to 2d animate over a video using blender 2.8 in real time. Basically, use the frames of the background video as a reference for timing and then 2d/3d animate over it. Finally, render both the animation and the video as one... would really appreciate a video about this.
Hi Anupam, I am putting together a "Grease Pencil" month's worth of content - possibly for April - and think this might be a good introduction to two things: image planes and Grease Pencil animation. I'll choose a simple example and go through the basics, but it won't be a finished animation or anything - I like to pass on the knowledge and techniques rather than impress with a detailed finished product. Would that interest you?
In this version of Blender, there didn't seem to be a default until you clicked on the "use nodes" checkbox. If there's one there now, great. You just saved a step. :)
Make sure to check if it's saving the cache to disk in your roaming data hidden files. Regular render caches can be saved to disk, but they eat a lot of space. (It's a checkbox in the performance settings, I used it for a while and found dozens of GB of data in my hidden roaming data folder. I'm talking about Windows.) Blender didn't delete them automatically, maybe that's changed. Don't know about freestyle cache, though, so check on it!
Incidentally, I looked at LANPR again yesterday and the new builds have changed considerably. LANPR is no longer a separate render engine, it's part of Grease Pencil and works with EEVEE or Cycles. Have you looked at this yet? Would be interested to hear your views. It's quite buggy at the mo, though.
Great video Paul, it's great to have someone wade through the seemingly endless array of options for freestyle and make sense of it all. Now maybe I won't give up and actually get some decent freestyle renders. Combining this with a freestyle svg exporter would be awesome. Cheers!
Thanks Kevin! I will say there was one caveat to the SVG exporter: a scene like this would produce an u wildly file. It would probably crash alot. SVG exporter is good, but you have to find the limit that Blender won't stall on export and your vector program won't crash on import.
@@PCaggegi Oh yeah for sure. I used it to mainly to create elements I need in a 2d illustration that would be difficult or impossible to create convincingly in 2d. Blender makes it easy to export the paths to illustrator or Affinity Designer for further tweaking/shading...
Paul, your tutorials on comic creation in Blender are superb and super duper helpful! I see you've been working on these types of vids since like 2013 or so! Keep it up!
You could make all your materials greyscale, or in the compositor use this docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/compositing/types/converter/rgb_to_bw.html
Thanks for this awesome tutorial! Just a quick question, What do you think is the difference between Blender and C4D in term of create this outline? I am totally new to this and wonder which software i should start to use....
@@PCaggegi Didn't work. But thanks so much for replying, and I still have faith you're generally an excellent psychic. And you are certainly an amazing Blender artist and teacher.
Try going through the steps which talk about settings again. I can't guess everything I'd already covered, you understand. My second guess is to check which version of blender you're using?
@@PCaggegi Newest version, and I just redownloaded to make sure. And I have now saved a copy of the original file with default settings, and will now go through your instructions over again. Again, thanks so much.
@@kentjensen4504 cool. Make sure you're in Cycles and not eevee. That's often the case which leads to no/blank renders. Check scene, check you've enabled freestyle, check you're rendering RGBA. All I can think of for now.
So I followed all the instructions as far as I can tell, but I go to render result and nothing appears. No lines or anything. Just a checkerboard. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here. I watched the video a few times and tried to match each option.
Hi there. It would be impossible to figure out unless I saw your file. Want to email it to me? I might be able to check it out and see what you missed.
I figured it out. I had a video strip in the sequencer and the sequencer takes precedence over compositing, so I disabled sequencer checkbox under the "output" tab under "post processing"
@@PCaggegi Yeah! Also, thanks for the prompt response. These videos have been very helpful. I don't often see people working with video in Blender (but it's such a good video editor) so often I have to dig a bit for answers.
EDIT: I was able to render my wireframe now. I didn't know that I have to choose the "wireframe" mode in the viewer before starting the render. I guess there are also other ways to do this but for now this is enough. I'm able to change the thickness and it renders with an alpha so everything is great. :) Hi Paul, your tutorial is really great, so I was trying to replicate your freestyle rendering but I got stuck. After I've been frustrated over my own scene I tried to build upon your 1902_FreestyleTutorial.blend file. And first it looked good I was able to see the outlines of my mesh through your camera in the render. But when I've imported my camera, it's a matchmove camera, it stoped working (means, no outlines in the render. the freestyle pass stopped working). Would be awesome when you have any hints for me. I've been trying around now for several hours but no solution in sight, yet. In case you can find some time to take a look here's the file: drive.google.com/open?id=1by1BtFCDjFaOnON7JFk6LBD7Na9eE2Iu ps: The original mesh in my scene is a big architecture mesh, that's why I've replaced it with a cube. ps2: My scene size seems to be off compared to the size of your environment (sci-fi corridor). So that could be a proble, too, right!? I don't know how to resize a complete scene with matchmove camera in Blender. I don't want to break the matchmove. I think it's obvious, I'm a total beginner here in Blender! ;) Best regards Marc.
@@PCaggegi You are a busy man + family + crazy Corona times! Man, I felt bad asking in the first place. :D Thank you for getting back to me, Paul! I wish you and your family the best! Take care!
@@PCaggegi Hi Paul, maybe you have a tip or trick to battle those freakin jitters in Freestyle. I'm going a bit crazy about this. ;) drive.google.com/open?id=1HtCm2l-G4shUszx5EWqwTfOgOHhjqe3k
@@PCaggegi Yeah, I gave up a time or two on some other tutorials because I was waiting for the magic. This one answers so many questions that the only one I have left is, How did you figure out all these things? *subscribed*
Honestly I have no idea. LANPR is a separate branch. I create tutorials and assets for Blender Vanilla so that anyone can use it. Those who are more savvy to download, compile and use the experimental branches are always wel one to do so. I assume they'd know their way around enough to figure it out.
I wouldn't really know. I try to keep my tutorials about the Vanilla version of Blender, as I don't want to add another layer of complexity for beginners.
Boy had to dig for that one. A promo 4 years old, for a 124 minutes paid course, on a channel that's barely been updated or shared. You really should refresh every now and then. Be a bit more approachable. Not just sit back and feel like you're the last word on everything, and that people will just find you.
Excellent tutorial! I'm wondering if you could help me with something. My edges look like they need anti aliasing because they're very sharp. How could I fix this thing? Thank you!
Freestyle lines are supposed to be pretty crisp, I think. I'll see if there's a setting to help with the aliasing. Without seeing any pictures there might be other render settings you might be overlooking. How do edges on any other passes appear?
@@PCaggegi What do you mean by "any other passes"? I tried almost every single setting on the freestyle menus but no luck, I had to render it and then apply a gaussian blur in photoshop to make it look "acceptable". Update me if you find something!
That's awesome you found a solution. All you've told me is that "it looks shit" and not offered any specifics. I am not the guy who wrote Freestyle, and there is a wealth of information out there which I try to simplify. Other passes means exactly that: any other render passes which you extract from a render: do they look too crisp? Do they look as though they need anti-aliasing, or is it only the freestyle pass? By eliminating other problems, you get closer to finding a solution. What are your file output settings like for example?
very nice, but i think, in my opinion it could be done faster inside clipstudio, maya, or better yet key shot in zbrush, because the intersections lines are missing,i dont know i would have to give it a try before judging
Hi! Wonderful tutorial! I trying to open blender files for the reference on my projects and crashes everytime. On my case, open the blender program and close immediately. I have a Windows 10 AMD Pro A10 9700 with video card R7 on HP EliteDesk PC with Blender 2.79b. I don't know what happen. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Don't worry! No problem Paulo. This problems always happens. Maybe a bug on Blender 2.8 and return to Blender 2.79 don't running? Take it time what do you need.
In the meantime: you can append anything from the 2.80 file into 2.79b. I would suggest appending the Freestyle lineset to use on your own scenes. I'll try to get the 2.79 file out tomorrow. Thanks for your patience!
Currently working on an update for this tutorial. Should be available in a couple weeks! Lots of changes, and should be way easier to understand. Stay tuned!
*Turns down the samples to 4*
Cycles: I am speed.
As usual, very informative and professionally presented.
clearly you have a vast level of knowledge and skill... however for a noob like me it is useless if you don't cover how to even get freestyle applied to your render in the first place... every tutorial I try to find just assumes you know how to set up a 'render node' or something and I am lost...
Hey there, Anti-Trekker! From about 10:37 it shows a pretty good run down of how to set up render nodes, and yes - what is missing is the shortcut to add a node - Shift-A - which will bring up a menu of nodes you can add. I'll try to be clearer in future content for beginners. Blender is set up with a basic input and output for rendering by default. In the compositing window, you generally have to tick "use nodes" to see it. Hope this helps!
It takes time. I watched this tutorial a year ago and was just like you, lost. I watched it again today and because I have more knowledge of blender, I gained a huge amount. Paul O'Caggegi is the GOAT for Freestyle :-)
Hi Paul, I have done everything you did in the tutorial but for some reason, no lines no objects no shades are showing up in render preview or on rendered image and I have no idea why...Only thing I see is that something is blocking out the viewport grid but its invisible
Without seeing your file I can't really know what's going on, dude. Are you in Cycles? Have you enabled transparency in your Film settings? Have you ticked Freestyle in your View Layer filters so you can render Freestyle - as shown at 4:30? If all else fails, download the demo file and check it against your own settings.
I'm having the same issue, which is strange because I had it working yesterday.
Nevermind, It works now. I just had to give Blender time to load the rendered image.
When I use your settings and render it, there is basically nothing. No lines. The color layer is black, the alpha layer too, and the combined just shows the transparent pattern, no lines. I don't get this...
Same here :c did you find any solution?
Thanks x 10 for sharing your research Paulo !!!
Hey sir is it possible to get the anime look on 3d models? if yes then please guide me or you can make a tutorial on that as well
Great Video!
If only this could be done in real time using EEVEE... :)
why can't it?
Very nicely explained!
Thanks!
Isn't the Local OR both or one of it, and not either or?
BTW: I highly recommend Eevee for Freestyle. It doesn't change the quality but it is much faster.
I highly recommend seeing more recent videos I've done. Still have to curate older stuff like this and set it to unlisted.
Yes! Thank you, I like blender's freestyle a lot! And there aren't many decent tutorials to use it with cycles, more for blender render, and with it now gone in 2.8 we are blessed to have this, where are all the views?! ;'P My ultimate goal is to have a setup able to produce hand drawn like images and this is a great start point. I'm looking forward to next month :)
Next month gets into compositing and I am sure you're going to like the tutorial I got coming up!
@@PCaggegi Sure will! :D
How do we render the image transparent like 10:20?
You say that you highly recommend switching from Eevee to Cycles. If we're not using most of the features of a renderer, why not just stay with Eevee? I don't know too much but it seems like you're really just using the outlines of the objects. No? Can you explain please?
Easy: This was released two years ago when freestyle was not enabled as a render pass and didn't play nice with eevee. There is a link to an updated video. Click on that and you'll see a more up-to-date tutorial.
Very cool!
idk sometimes its not working and sometimes it is
We should have some bake setting of the line detection step for fast tweaking.
Thank you very much. The knowledge you are sharing here is priceless. Really informative!
That still means I will have to model the buildings, scenery, etc in Blender before I use Freestyle...am I right?
Yes that's the idea
Very nice tutorial, i like so much anime style and this freestyle can help me to creat something very good. Thanks
Thanks man! Do check out the updated version. Link in the notes.
HEEEEELP I dont know If a touch something else, but when I render mi model nothing appears, and in the viewport shading I cant see my objects :cc I just see png texture all over the place. Help please :cccc
Are you rendering a png with alpha? RGBA in your output settings? When compositing, do you have alpha enabled? If compositing freestyle over anything else, have you enabled the "alpha of second input" in your node?
@@PCaggegi Well yes Iam rendering with alpha, I have the RGBA activated and in the compositing I have activated the alpha too. The thing is that the lineart is not showing in the final render, I have the freestyle activated and all of your setting in my project. I was trying it yesterday and it works, but now it is not working, I dont know If I touched something else, I´m new in blender haha.
@@PCaggegi I also did and little animation with the camera, idk if that effects in something
@@marck_art ok. Just eliminating the obvious errors most people overlook. Ok - which version of Blender are you using?
@@PCaggegi Ok haha, it is the version 2.82, the last one, I think
Impressive and inspiring video. Thanks! And this makes me want to look into the comics you make.
Cheers, Kent. You could look at Homebased - the comic I currently produce - which utilises a few 3D assets. www.homebasedcomic.com/ My website (link provided in my About page I think?) has some more examples.
@@PCaggegi I didn't see your reply before. Looking at your comics now. I like them.
I searched for 2 hours for a reason why the freestyle outline wasnt loading in the render...
I didnt wait long enough to it to render.
Hey Paul I am NEW to Blender, Basically a NEWBIE. Love what you are doing and sharing with us, I subscribed Instantly. Looking Forward to learning from you as grow as a Blender user and comic Artist. Will be joining your Patreon soon.
Hey thanks Dexter! I'm hoping you get alot out of my videos. Please feel free to message me if you have any issues with stuff or need clarification, either here or even on Patreon. I'll attempt to respond ASAP.
thanks again for a great video
Hi there. I have a question:
I'm currently working on a personal short animation project in Blender Cycles (2.79b) with freestyle.
I've noticed that randomly in some frames certain freestyle strokes break (especially the contour line). What's the reason for this and how can it be avoided?
Yup. That happens. If you look around for more in-depth content on freestyle, you might find some solutions to minimize it but it is a known problem.
Paul O Caggegi
Well I've opened a question on Blender Stack Exchange but otherwise I've found nothing so far.
Thus reddit thread might offer some insights. I'm not entirely sure what your scene entails, and freestyle can be a pain to get right. I focus mainly on stills, so am not a great source for animation problems. Hope this helps www.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/87rkic/problems_in_blender_freestyle_there_are_artifacts/
Mmmmm... Nice! Thank you very much, Paul! Gone to try.
Oooooohhhhh this is just perfect for my Blender self-teaching!! I had this video on my watch list for the longest time now, and your whole channel rocks! I'm going to subscribe now and follow you closely because this is exactly what I'm looking for my animations in the future! Awesome work and thanks a lot for sharing these! =D
Hi Paul, I would like to 2d animate over a video using blender 2.8 in real time. Basically, use the frames of the background video as a reference for timing and then 2d/3d animate over it. Finally, render both the animation and the video as one... would really appreciate a video about this.
That sounds like rotoscoping. It could certainly be done using Grease Pencil. Could be an interesting topic! I'll keep you posted.
@@PCaggegi thanks Paul, will wait for your tutorial :)
Hi Anupam, I am putting together a "Grease Pencil" month's worth of content - possibly for April - and think this might be a good introduction to two things: image planes and Grease Pencil animation. I'll choose a simple example and go through the basics, but it won't be a finished animation or anything - I like to pass on the knowledge and techniques rather than impress with a detailed finished product. Would that interest you?
10:40 Not using the Compositing workspace that is predefined for you?
In this version of Blender, there didn't seem to be a default until you clicked on the "use nodes" checkbox. If there's one there now, great. You just saved a step. :)
@@PCaggegi It’s been in there since 2.80.
Noted. :) hope you got something useful out of my tutorial still.
Good tut
This is... SUPERB!!! Thank you so much for making this for us!
super cool, thanks a lot !!!
wow that was just a nice journey , been meaning to learn more about this , thanks !!
4:30 THANK YOU!
Excellent video. Many thanks.
Thanks.
You can check the "View Map Cache" option, save some time when is rendering the same image.-
Does it only save time or can you actually view the cache somehow?
i think that it re-use the previous render if is not changed, so it jump to the freestyle. I don´t know if you can see the data...
That's good enough reason. I'm going to keep it enabled from now on. Thanks!
Make sure to check if it's saving the cache to disk in your roaming data hidden files. Regular render caches can be saved to disk, but they eat a lot of space. (It's a checkbox in the performance settings, I used it for a while and found dozens of GB of data in my hidden roaming data folder. I'm talking about Windows.) Blender didn't delete them automatically, maybe that's changed.
Don't know about freestyle cache, though, so check on it!
Great tip @@josephbrandenburg4373 !
*sigh* mine didn't work. I made sure it was on color and alpha but there was nothing there. Just alpha.
Did you check you film settings in the render panel? Tick "transparent"?
Awesome explanation! I am wondering, is there somehow a possibility to make a style transfer option in Blender?
thanks!!
Incidentally, I looked at LANPR again yesterday and the new builds have changed considerably. LANPR is no longer a separate render engine, it's part of Grease Pencil and works with EEVEE or Cycles. Have you looked at this yet? Would be interested to hear your views. It's quite buggy at the mo, though.
This is still in an experimental branch tho, and not the official release, right?
@@PCaggegi Yes, it is experimental. Fascinating, though :-)
Nice presentation of what these features actually do. Thanks!
Just amazing dude...
Great video Paul, it's great to have someone wade through the seemingly endless array of options for freestyle and make sense of it all. Now maybe I won't give up and actually get some decent freestyle renders. Combining this with a freestyle svg exporter would be awesome. Cheers!
Thanks Kevin! I will say there was one caveat to the SVG exporter: a scene like this would produce an u wildly file. It would probably crash alot. SVG exporter is good, but you have to find the limit that Blender won't stall on export and your vector program won't crash on import.
@@PCaggegi Oh yeah for sure. I used it to mainly to create elements I need in a 2d illustration that would be difficult or impossible to create convincingly in 2d. Blender makes it easy to export the paths to illustrator or Affinity Designer for further tweaking/shading...
I'm going to keep my ear to the ground about SVG exporter. I did find it an interesting and useful tool! I'll keep you posted!
@@PCaggegiWell that sounds intriguing...
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Paul, your tutorials on comic creation in Blender are superb and super duper helpful! I see you've been working on these types of vids since like 2013 or so! Keep it up!
I'd like to have a greyscale shading on the renderings. Can that be achieved? What settings need to be reasserted?
You could make all your materials greyscale, or in the compositor use this docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/compositing/types/converter/rgb_to_bw.html
Thanks for this awesome tutorial! Just a quick question, What do you think is the difference between Blender and C4D in term of create this outline? I am totally new to this and wonder which software i should start to use....
I am unfamiliar with C4D so I can't really comment, sorry. :(
@@PCaggegiNo worry! thanks for your reply! :)
super helpful info! Thanks for being there for me!
I get a blank render, and I followed every step here. Don't know what I'm dog wrong.
Check you have transparency ticked in your render settings, would be my psychic prediction.
@@PCaggegi Didn't work. But thanks so much for replying, and I still have faith you're generally an excellent psychic. And you are certainly an amazing Blender artist and teacher.
Try going through the steps which talk about settings again. I can't guess everything I'd already covered, you understand. My second guess is to check which version of blender you're using?
@@PCaggegi Newest version, and I just redownloaded to make sure. And I have now saved a copy of the original file with default settings, and will now go through your instructions over again. Again, thanks so much.
@@kentjensen4504 cool. Make sure you're in Cycles and not eevee. That's often the case which leads to no/blank renders. Check scene, check you've enabled freestyle, check you're rendering RGBA. All I can think of for now.
Huge thanks to you Paul!!!
So I followed all the instructions as far as I can tell, but I go to render result and nothing appears. No lines or anything. Just a checkerboard. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here. I watched the video a few times and tried to match each option.
Hi there. It would be impossible to figure out unless I saw your file. Want to email it to me? I might be able to check it out and see what you missed.
I figured it out. I had a video strip in the sequencer and the sequencer takes precedence over compositing, so I disabled sequencer checkbox under the "output" tab under "post processing"
Ah! Good find. I'd have never guessed off the top of my head. Just having sequencer ticked won't affect it, but having a strip on the timeline will.
@@PCaggegi Yeah! Also, thanks for the prompt response. These videos have been very helpful. I don't often see people working with video in Blender (but it's such a good video editor) so often I have to dig a bit for answers.
How did you get your render window into your interface?
Check this out blenderartists.org/t/blender-2-8-disable-render-in-new-window/1144032
EDIT: I was able to render my wireframe now. I didn't know that I have to choose the "wireframe" mode in the viewer before starting the render. I guess there are also other ways to do this but for now this is enough. I'm able to change the thickness and it renders with an alpha so everything is great. :)
Hi Paul,
your tutorial is really great, so I was trying to replicate your freestyle rendering but I got stuck. After I've been frustrated over my own scene I tried to build upon your 1902_FreestyleTutorial.blend file. And first it looked good I was able to see the outlines of my mesh through your camera in the render. But when I've imported my camera, it's a matchmove camera, it stoped working (means, no outlines in the render. the freestyle pass stopped working). Would be awesome when you have any hints for me. I've been trying around now for several hours but no solution in sight, yet. In case you can find some time to take a look here's the file: drive.google.com/open?id=1by1BtFCDjFaOnON7JFk6LBD7Na9eE2Iu
ps: The original mesh in my scene is a big architecture mesh, that's why I've replaced it with a cube.
ps2: My scene size seems to be off compared to the size of your environment (sci-fi corridor). So that could be a proble, too, right!? I don't know how to resize a complete scene with matchmove camera in Blender. I don't want to break the matchmove. I think it's obvious, I'm a total beginner here in Blender! ;)
Best regards
Marc.
Hey Marc, so sorry I haven't gotten round to this yet. Glad it worked out tho.
@@PCaggegi You are a busy man + family + crazy Corona times! Man, I felt bad asking in the first place. :D Thank you for getting back to me, Paul! I wish you and your family the best! Take care!
@@lebenin3604 don't feel bad! Thanks for the well wishes. Much appreciated.
@@PCaggegi Hi Paul, maybe you have a tip or trick to battle those freakin jitters in Freestyle. I'm going a bit crazy about this. ;)
drive.google.com/open?id=1HtCm2l-G4shUszx5EWqwTfOgOHhjqe3k
Awesome loved this.
4:30 I don't have anything called "filter" on my View Layer Properties
What version of Blender are you using?
2.81, I figured it out, I was in eevee. I guess there's no way to see the freestyle lines in the render preview viewport shading?
@@silentfilmss correct. Freestyle is a post effect. It's applied at render time.
@@PCaggegi Yeah, I gave up a time or two on some other tutorials because I was waiting for the magic.
This one answers so many questions that the only one I have left is, How did you figure out all these things?
*subscribed*
it took me 29 mins to do a freestyle render even if its so simple
Yup. Freestyle can take some time. Depends on lots of stuff: computer specs, how many edges it has to calculate, etc
Has the LANPR real-time engine project for Blender stopped / ended?
Honestly I have no idea. LANPR is a separate branch. I create tutorials and assets for Blender Vanilla so that anyone can use it. Those who are more savvy to download, compile and use the experimental branches are always wel one to do so. I assume they'd know their way around enough to figure it out.
I wouldn't really know. I try to keep my tutorials about the Vanilla version of Blender, as I don't want to add another layer of complexity for beginners.
If you model your models for freestyle in mind, you only render once.
Very wise. Now go make that video, Yoda! :D
@@PCaggegi Did that when we made Freestyle Level Up course. XD
Boy had to dig for that one. A promo 4 years old, for a 124 minutes paid course, on a channel that's barely been updated or shared. You really should refresh every now and then. Be a bit more approachable. Not just sit back and feel like you're the last word on everything, and that people will just find you.
@@PCaggegi Not sure you understand. The course was a success.
It was also 4 years ago. Blender was in version - what, 2.76? Great to hear it was a success back then. :)
OI, m8, but WHY do I need to switch to cycles ?
New blender version gives eevee freestyle, no worries.
no alpha in eevee, so u cant get only the line with alpha
Excellent tutorial! I'm wondering if you could help me with something. My edges look like they need anti aliasing because they're very sharp. How could I fix this thing? Thank you!
You might try increasing the resolution of your render? Don't forget to also increase the thickness of your lines as well when you do.
@@PCaggegi yeah I tried both, but I was rendering at 4k already and they looked like shit
Freestyle lines are supposed to be pretty crisp, I think. I'll see if there's a setting to help with the aliasing. Without seeing any pictures there might be other render settings you might be overlooking. How do edges on any other passes appear?
@@PCaggegi What do you mean by "any other passes"? I tried almost every single setting on the freestyle menus but no luck, I had to render it and then apply a gaussian blur in photoshop to make it look "acceptable". Update me if you find something!
That's awesome you found a solution. All you've told me is that "it looks shit" and not offered any specifics. I am not the guy who wrote Freestyle, and there is a wealth of information out there which I try to simplify. Other passes means exactly that: any other render passes which you extract from a render: do they look too crisp? Do they look as though they need anti-aliasing, or is it only the freestyle pass? By eliminating other problems, you get closer to finding a solution. What are your file output settings like for example?
Greetings, I'm still working in 2.79 and I would like to apply this effect. Well, more specifically your comic ink effect on fire. How can I do that?
very nice, but i think, in my opinion it could be done faster inside clipstudio, maya, or better yet key shot in zbrush, because the intersections lines are missing,i dont know i would have to give it a try before judging
Hi! Wonderful tutorial!
I trying to open blender files for the reference on my projects and crashes everytime. On my case, open the blender program and close immediately. I have a Windows 10 AMD Pro A10 9700 with video card R7 on HP EliteDesk PC with Blender 2.79b. I don't know what happen. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
The demo file is a 2.80 file.
If you can bear with me, I'm going to produce a 2.79b version for download in a day or two. I should have done this in the first place.
Don't worry! No problem Paulo. This problems always happens. Maybe a bug on Blender 2.8 and return to Blender 2.79 don't running? Take it time what do you need.
In the meantime: you can append anything from the 2.80 file into 2.79b. I would suggest appending the Freestyle lineset to use on your own scenes. I'll try to get the 2.79 file out tomorrow. Thanks for your patience!