PLEASE HELP! trying to create pencil effect!

[randy-croucher]

hi,

i'm new here and we be really gratefull if anyone could point me to somewhere that shows how to create a non-realistic pencil effect in the rendering process.

i'm sure it must be possible to do in the render tree, but i am having difficulty.

how would you guys go about doing it???? everything out there seems to be for Renderman and not for XSI and Mental Ray..

PLEASE HELP!!!!

cheers in advance...

[atyss]

What do you mean exactly by "pencil effect"?

You can look at the mental ray shaders on this site.

Hope this helps
Salutations - Cheers
Bernard Lebel

[randy-croucher]

sorry, should have been more specific.

i am trying to create a pencil shaded effect using the render tree in XSI 2. there are painterly effects in XSI's FX Tree, but they don't create the effect i want.

the effect i want is for the render to look like Raymond Briggs work... it will be hard!

thanks

[atyss]

Sorry for my lack of culture but could you post an image, if possible, of a Raymond Briggs work? Or if you can't could you post a link to an image that is the same kind of what you're after? Or could you describe in words the effects?

You can play with the toon shaders. You might find the following link useful:

http://www.edharriss.com/tutorials/tutoria...hader/hatch.htm

Salutations - Cheers
Bernard Lebel

[fuzy]

Hi Snowman!

Busy with the reserach, huh? Here's a few links out of the bookmarks. By the way, photoshop shouldn't be totally overlooked either...

http://cube.phlatt.net/forums/spiraloid/viewtopic.php?TopicID=50#329http://cube.phlatt.net/forums/spiraloid/vi...?TopicID=50#329

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/hertzman/research.htmlhttp://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/hertzman/research.html

http://http://www.poopculture.com/chris/tutor/paint_tut.htmlhttp://www.poopculture.com/chris/tutor/paint\_tut.html

http://www.poopculture.com/chris/tutor/paint_tut.html

[randy-croucher]

cheers ivan!

god you are everywhere, aren't you???

i'll get round to putting a piccie of raymond briggs up tonight!!

CHEERS EVERYONE!!! the shader is coming on ok!

[fuzy]

@@god you are everywhere, aren't you???

see that reflection in the monitor....?