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New Training: Toon Character Workflow

  • 6 Dec 2016
  • 1 min read
Francesco Siddi
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Have you ever wondered how to create fun and appealing toon-shaded characters like these?

Katsu Cats HD

YouTube star Dillon Gu (director of Katsu Cats and more cool videos) has joined Blender Cloud for the production of a tutorial series that will guide you from the basics to a finished toon-shaded character.

The training is divided into 3 main sections:

  • Modeling and rigging (available now to all Blender Cloud subscribers)
  • Toon Shading (coming soon)
  • Animation (coming soon)

We hope you will enjoy the training, check it out here and feel free to leave any comment. Dillon will be around to answer them :)

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8 comments
Ulrike Piko
Ulrike Piko
Dec. 8th, 2016

oooooooh, just what I was waiting for! Christmas is starting early! Thanks a million, can't wait for animation and rendering! So great of you to make a work flow tutorial. And this is true: nice voice (Icing on my cake).

Forgotten Fantasies
Forgotten Fantasies
Dec. 7th, 2016

A new training, yay! I have one question, is the shading based on Internal+Freestyle or Cycles+Freestyle? BTW comments are forbidden on the tutorials :(

Francesco Siddi
Francesco Siddi
Dec. 8th, 2016

@Forgotten.Fantasies: I leave the shading details to Dillon, but comments should be open now!

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Dillon Gu
Dillon Gu
Dec. 8th, 2016

@Forgotten.Fantasies: No worries! It's a very simple setup, which we'll go over in Part 2 :)

Forgotten Fantasies
Forgotten Fantasies
Dec. 8th, 2016

@dillon.w.gu: Wow! I'll need to dust off my BI knowledge.

Forgotten Fantasies
Forgotten Fantasies
Dec. 8th, 2016

@fsiddi: Thanks!

Dillon Gu
Dillon Gu
Dec. 8th, 2016

@Forgotten.Fantasies: All of the shading is done in Blender Internal!

Ton Roosendaal
Ton Roosendaal
Dec. 6th, 2016

Dillon has a fantastic clear radio voice. A pleasure to listen to the tuts. Good work!

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