Maya Toon Shader: The Secret to Creating 2D-style 3D Animation in Minutes

I'm back! Just a quick video on how I made my animation look a little more 2D/Anime and helped the shading/look to match the style of my animation for the January AnimChallenge, totally in viewport in Maya, real-time, no compositing, or even lights, just a playblast straight out of Maya.
This is definitely for Animators who just like to focus on the animation and want something quick and dirty to get a result that looks a little better than a default playblast!
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Fab resources I used in this/making the shot:
Akali Rig agora.communit...
FX Pack by Shadrak Guichard-Foster shadrakgf.gumr...
Building model www.turbosquid...
Debris Tool by Kiel Figgins www.3dfiggins.c...
HDR background • Anime Styled Eevee Ble...
Free Power Metal 🤘 • Video
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[@owenferny]

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[@harshal792]

So cool, Owen!
Tutorials would be really helpful! Thank you! :D

[@hasaanqureshiii]

Really Awesome Stuff Owen. Much Appreciated

[@owenferny]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@LordLuigi_Rigs]

Looks good!

[@RocketBoyStudio]

I canot find the menu for the toon shelf you are using . Ive tried switching to Arnold, renderer tab view and no toon options apart from the going to the hypershade window. help?

[@shwetaraavi4007]

Hi, nice tutorial. The debris scrip UI is not popping up please help me to fix this issue.

[@AnimatorHeadSpace]

Pretty awesome man!

[@breeishly]

Thanks, this is awesome!

[@bilosofie]

awesome❤❤❤❤

[@kenzietownsend6644]

Did you playblast because of aiToon only working on CPU? I was trying all day...different back end things. :D

[@TylerGutierrez]

The toon materials used here, can you still use the diffuse texture as well? Say when paired together? Or can that only be done with a rendering engine?

[@kenzietownsend6644]

In the Arnold Render tutorial he used it as the Base color. Then added a Ramprgb

[@linghan793]

How to create speed-line in Maya? Thx!

[@Aselia-q6w]

Amazing!

[@HiImJoki]

Hey idk if you could help me but i can't get the vfx to work :(

[@ChesterSampson]

nice picker you have for that rig :O

[@DozyJim]

WIDE akali

[@owenferny]

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[@RevelPL]

Great! Thanks man!

[@zenosenpai2291]

amazing work bro , I would like to know camera animation too..

[@owenferny]

That's a video I'd like to work on soon!

[@sndraws23]

but then when you render using arnold its all flat how do i fix that?

[@owenferny]

this is just a quick thing for animators to use in the viewport/playblasts, I'm not sure how to translate this to proper rendering in Arnold

[@aryanbarure1479]

waitt hwo did you get that fire fx thoughh🥺

[@owenferny]

There's a link to the fx pack in the description :)

[@joaovitorschuler292]

It would be great if you show how you make this animation :)), show the reference, your approach to it, if you use it eheheh

[@owenferny]

I'll put together some videos at some point with the stuff I recorded! I didn't use reference for this, which made it quite painful at times! 😭

[@civilcelebritie26651]

bro tutorial of this video, how to make this

[@YamanPrajapati]

uhm how to render it ?

[@owenferny]

Not sure, this is done in viewport/playblast only :)

[@Aselia-q6w]

I'm sorry for your eye.
I'm not sure what took place, but please take care of your health, nothing else is worth it by the end of the day.

[@owenferny]

Thanks Adam, you're 100% right, it's all good, was just strange! 😅

[@artcomplex.studio]

Thankyou man