🧵 How to get the perfect 2D waifu shader?

Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 06:01:40 UTC No. 1001374

Can some blender wizard help me?

I want to imitate this art shading in blender.

The issue is that the light and shadow boundaries doesnt seem to follow the definition if this was a 3D mesh.
They seem to imitate similar boundaries if the mesh were under a subsurf modifier and used a toon shader.
But at the same time the light shadow boundarie seems to follow very closelly if there are creases, similar in that area to a bevel operator more than a smooth subsurf surface. This is more obvious on the joint ares and the fingers and the groin area in some anime art, specially if there's something like a shirt of jeans.

The specular is closer to a metalic in PBR shaders or a phong model very shiny specular, It usually follow simpler shapes than the shadow, and sometimes is even the shape of circles or something that looks like the shape of a RIM light but beyond the area of a normal rim light.

There's also the reflected light of the ambient light, but this seems to follow something like a curvature map and a vector towards the left area of the camera view point.

There's also the RIM light, which follow fresnel logic, but in a simplified fashion.

Colors don't seem to follow really a realistic logic but more a color ramp type of logic.